Hi,

Is there a way to split a line automatically like awk would?

Given "A quick brown fox jumped over ",
        awk '{print $3}' ... ==> brown
or like in perl
        split(':',$line)...

I'd like to do within vim something like
        :s/{some notation}/\3
without having to define the pattern
        :s/\(\S\+\) \(\S\+\) \(\S\+\) ... /\3 ==> brown

using white space, and if needed, by defining my own separator


Thanks.



Ben K.
Developer
http://benix.tamu.edu

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