Finding something conatined in two lines?

[meino . cramer]

Hi,

 Suppose there is a file containing a path/filename -- in each line:

 #
 a.txt
 b.txt
 c.txt
 #
 1.txt
 2.txt
 3.txt
 4.txt
 #
 1.txt
 3.txt
 4.txt
 #

 Now I want to replace any combination of
 1.txt
 2,txt
 by - say - 
 x.txt

 Is there a way to expand / of two/more lines ?

 Keep editing!
 mcc


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Re: Finding something conatined in two lines?

[Jürgen Krämer]

Hi,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Suppose there is a file containing a path/filename -- in each line:
 
  #
  a.txt
  b.txt
  c.txt
  #
  1.txt
  2.txt
  3.txt
  4.txt
  #
  1.txt
  3.txt
  4.txt
  #
 
  Now I want to replace any combination of
  1.txt
  2,txt
  by - say - 
  x.txt
 
  Is there a way to expand / of two/more lines ?

you can represent an end-of-line inside a regular expression with \n

  :%s/^1\.txt\n2\.txt$/x.txt/

Regards,
Jürgen

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