Re: Matching non-capitalized words?
:%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI another option is to include \C in the regular expression itself: :%s/\C\[a-z]\+\//g One should be careful about this, as the help states: :help /\C Note that 'ignorecase', \c and \C are not used for the character classes. And when you look up :help /character-class it shows you what's considered a character class. I don't know if the [...] notation is considered a character-class or not, but the \u \l etc are listed there. Just one of those things to watch out for with the \c and \C that don't seem to apply with regards to the I flag. Or maybe they do with the I flag too? The docs leave a bit of a gap here that could go either way. -tim
Re: Matching non-capitalized words?
Hi, Tim Chase wrote: :%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI another option is to include \C in the regular expression itself: :%s/\C\[a-z]\+\//g One should be careful about this, as the help states: :help /\C Note that 'ignorecase', \c and \C are not used for the character classes. this means that \u always matches uppercase characters regardless of whether ignorecase is set or not. \c is (at least in this case) equivalent to setting ignorecase before search -- \u still matches only uppercase letters. Because \C is used to make a pattern independent of the current value of ignorecase, \u does not change when used with \C either. And when you look up :help /character-class it shows you what's considered a character class. I don't know if the [...] notation is considered a character-class or not, but the \u \l etc are listed there. [...] is not considered a character class but a collection. As such it behaves differently depending on the current value of ignorecase. If set [A-Z] matches lowercase letters, too, as is the case when \c is included in the search pattern. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)
Matching non-capitalized words?
How would I match (and then delete) all of the words in a buffer that are not capitalized? Thanks. -- yours, William
RE: Matching non-capitalized words?
Make sure 'ignorecase' is off: :set noignorecase :%s/\[a-z]\+\//g Salman. -Original Message- From: William O'Higgins Witteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:24 PM To: vim Subject: Matching non-capitalized words? How would I match (and then delete) all of the words in a buffer that are not capitalized? Thanks. -- yours, William
Re: Matching non-capitalized words?
Make sure 'ignorecase' is off: :set noignorecase :%s/\[a-z]\+\//g If you don't want to bung with your vim-wide (or bufferwide) settings, you can always just change your :s to include the I flag. :%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI Additionally, this will not find camel-case words, such as strFooBarBaz (which can be common if your source text is code) To accomodate that, you can use :%s/\\l\w*\//gI (that is backslash ell not backslash one, which is a slightly shorter notation for [a-z], and may have some unicode plusses to it) You can learn more at :help :s_flags (and scroll down to the I) :help /\l :help /\w to tailor the regexp for exactly what you're hunting. -tim
Re: Matching non-capitalized words?
Hi, Tim Chase wrote: Make sure 'ignorecase' is off: :set noignorecase :%s/\[a-z]\+\//g If you don't want to bung with your vim-wide (or bufferwide) settings, you can always just change your :s to include the I flag. :%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI another option is to include \C in the regular expression itself: :%s/\C\[a-z]\+\//g Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)
