On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";". My basic > regex is: > > /http:.\+;/ > > But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried > various incatations to try and make my regex "non-greedy" but I can't > seem to come up with the correct combination. > > How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon?
Tested in vi, not vim:
/http:[^;]*/
Dan
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