replacing *** with 0 in ascii data file

[yagnesh]

hi friends.,
my ascii file is as shown
1 41.18324 117.2673 ***
2 41.18324 117.2799 12.78
3 41.18324 117.2925 ***
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299859 37.65457 122.0885 16.8
299860 37.65457 122.1011 16.668
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657522 33.21582 127.602 23.532
657523 33.21582 127.6146 23.532

like wise i have 100's of files..
In all the files i have to replace the *** (represents no data in my file) with 0( zero).
i could not match those *** with the sed. ( am unfamiliar with regexp )

any suggestions plz

thanks in advance..
Yagnesh

[wje_lf]

am unfamiliar with regexp

That is the underlying problem, of course. And it's easily solved. google this:

regexp tutorial

[vsemaska]

Plus you didn't list the sed command you tried to use.

[yagnesh]

hi thanks for the replies...
i did it with

sed  's/\*\*\*/0/g' filename

BTW thanks for not mentioning the code earlier..