Thanks, it works perfectly.
Can you explain:
why you changed .* to .
and the function of
{-}
Thanks
Mike
On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
Hi,
On 10/29/06, Mike Blonder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I want to reorder variable2 and variable3 from the following line
structure for 44 lines in a datafile, the data field separator is a
"((" character
variable1 data((variable2 data((variable3 data((variable4 data
((variable5 data((variable6 data((variable7 data((variable8 data
((variable9 data(( .. (( (end of line. some lines have upwards to 20
or more variables)
to
variable1 data((variable3 data((variable2 data(( etc
when I use the following syntax (which I extrapolated from sec 12.2
of VIM manual, version 6.3):
6,50s;\(variable2.*\)((;\(variable3.*\);\2\1;
Try using the following command:
:6,50s;\(variable2.\{-}\)((\(variable3.\{-}\)((;\2((\1((
- Yegappan
"variable3 data" is correctly moved into the position formerly held
by "variable2 data". However, "variable2 data" is appended to the
end of the entire line and NOT moved to the position that was
formerly taken by "variable3 data"
Any ideas as to what's wrong?
Thanks
Mike
