Hi Joel,

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Joel A Divekar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I am trying to do the following
> Search for all lines starting with&nbsp;INSERT&nbsp;command and append 
> ;&nbsp;at End of Line
>
> I am aware about search and replace using
> :%s/^INSERT/$;/g
> but this replaces INSERT and not append ; at end of the line.&nbsp;Kindly help
> Regards
>

Try,
:%s/^INSERT\(.*\)$/\0\&nbsp\;/g

ie. Capture everything after the INSERT and replace it by itself (\0)
and the text you want you append.
>
> Joel Divekar
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Thanks.
Pratik
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