Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:01]: > > Can someone tell me search and replace commands I can > > use to convert comma delimited text in form: > > "field 1","field 2","field 3" > > to text file to be used in tabular latex file of form: > > field 1 & field 2 & field 3
[cut] > Be careful with the second line if you have quotation marks embedded in > your fields, though, even if they're escaped with a backslash or > something. I would probably get around this by one of two ways. The first (and simplest) way it to use 3 commands: :%s/","/ \& /g :%s/^"// :%s/"$// ... in other words, change "," to &, then remove the " at the beginning of the line and then the one at the end of the line. The third way is to do the last 2 commands above in a single search and replace instead: :%s/^"\(.*\)"$/\1/ This expression means 'replace all lines starting and ending with a quote with the contents of the quotes'. Matthew
