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jpeters

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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,00:51

Quote (lucky13 @ Dec. 19 2007,14:41)

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I was looking through lucky's cheatlink for a way to search & replace using wild characters (* or ?)

Grrr, off the top of my head I can figure out the search. The replace string needs work (e.g., it's changing F1 to F(d)). Off to google...

:%s@F\d@F(\d)@g

This can't be too difficult.

Edit: Especially if you do what hats suggested. The digit range (\d) will work for [0-9].

I'll play around with this when I get some time, or else enquire on a vim forum.

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Edit: Especially if you do what hats suggested. The digit range (\d) will work for [0-9]

That was about the first thing I tried, but didn't work.

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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,01:15

What doesn't work? Perhaps the text you require replacing is different?

jpeters

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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,02:35

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Dec. 19 2007,20:15)

What doesn't work? Perhaps the text you require replacing is different?

I didn't know you expected it to work as is. As posted, it doesn't match. Eliminating the first set of (), it yields an illegal back ref error.

Edit: I'm checking through a few pages now on pattern matching in vim.

http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html

EDIT: Hmm...Now it works! Thanks HATS....I have no idea why it didn't work before, since I pasted it in. (I guess I needed to go through the page I posted to see WHY it works before it would work.....)

note: perhaps I hadn't included the range previously....

EDIT: The '+' doesn't seem to work for getting additional digits, but a '*' does. Thus, '1,20s/F$[0-9]*$/F(\1)/g' ,for replacing in lines 1-20.

EDIT: After trying it out further, I found that it's also putting () after every 'F' that doesn't have a number. e.g, F(100) F()r some F()cking reason.