[buug] regex question

[johnd]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:52:52PM -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:40:52PM -0700, johnd wrote:
> > I need a regex to substitue on that gives me
> > the part after the = and before the &
> 
> 	Something like:
> 
> 	($id) = $_ =~ m"UserID=(.*)&";


I don't follow.

How would you use this?

For example in vim, if I want to substitute all UserIDs to xyz

something I can put in a substitue command


%s/the_regex/xyz/g