[buug] more specific

[Aaron T Porter]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:19:59PM -0700, johnd wrote:
> > kronos# cat testfile | sed -e "s:UserID=oldid:UserID=newid:g" > newfile
> 
> yea, the thinkg is oldid is always different, that is why I am asking
> for a regex to find everthing that is UserID to the &

	Since you mentioned VI, this works in vim:

	:%s/UserID=.\{-}&/UserID=foo\&/