newbie - Regular expression help

[Grant Edwards]

In article <8v8i2a$lmt$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>, Satheesh Babu wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I need to scan a string and replace all occurrences of
>"./" with null. But "../" shouldn't get changed.
>
>Stupid way is to first replace ../ with AbRaCaDaBrA
>and then replace ./ with null and then replace
>AbRaCaDaBrA with ../
>
>There should be a simpler solution.

Probably.  But does it have anything to do with Esperanto?

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