Hi,
Wolfgang Schmidt wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do a regexp replacement. My original line is
>
> ignore MATCH1 ignore_again MATCH2
>
> I want to match MATCH1 and MATCH2, so here's my trial:
>
> s/^ignore \(.*\{-}\) .*\{-} \(.*\)/matched:\1,\2/gc
>
> I tried to use \{-} to make the ".*" match non-greedy, but I get E62 and
> E476.
in contrast to Perl where you have to append ? to * to make the match
non-greedy, in Vim you must replace * with \{-}. The correct regexp
would have been
s/^ignore \(.\{-}\) .\{-} \(.*\)/matched:\1,\2/gc
Regards,
Jürgen
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