Perfect, thanks very much.
-Original Message-
From: Jürgen Krämer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 12 July 2006 09:14
To: vim mailing list
Subject: [Bulk] Re: Shortest Pattern Match
Hi,
Bob Fleming wrote:
Hi all,
I believe vim carries out greedy pattern matching, i.e. the longest
pattern
found will be used. Is there a way of performing shortest matching ?
As an example, I have the following text:
fe fi fo united kingdom fe fi fo 0911 209 30 30
and I want to delete everything up to the word united so I used :%s/.*fo
//
but this deleted everything up to 0911.
have a look at :help /\{
:%s/.\{-\}fo //
Another way to remove everything in front of united is
:%s/.*\zeunited//
for the last united on the line and
:%s/.\{-}\zeunited//
for the first united (see :help /\ze for the special meaning of \ze)
Regards,
Jürgen
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