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Subject: Re: Replace the portion of text that matches pattern: XPath versus SNOBOL
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:35:44 -0000

On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 12:03 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> Suppose that you want to only replace the first match, i.e., we want
> "BELANCE." I do not think that there is any way to configure the
> XPath replace() function to "Replace only the first match." Please
> correct me if I am wrong about this.

You have to prepend ^.*? to get the first match and only that one.

Yes, it would be nice to have a 1 flag to replace only the first.

liam

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Replace the portion of text that matches pattern: XPath versus SNOBOL
- Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx - 22 Mar 2025 12:03:15 -0000
  - Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx - 22 Mar 2025 12:28:10 -0000
  - Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx - 22 Mar 2025 13:00:01 -0000
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    - Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx - 23 Mar 2025 10:23:50 -0000
      - David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx - 23 Mar 2025 10:41:53 -0000
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