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Old 09-27-2006
anbu23 anbu23 is offline Forum Advisor  
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* in regular expression will match any number (or none) of the single character that immediately precedes it

Code:
sed 's/From here*to here/new text/g'
This regular expression From here*to here will match
From herto here
From hereto here
From hereeto here
...

\ Usually, turn off the special meaning of the following character

Code:
sed 's/From here\*to here/new text/g'
This regular expression From here\*to here will match
From here*to here

try this

Code:
sed 's/From here.*to here/new text/g'