Bram Kuijper wrote:
I am quite new to vim and just started to use regular expressions to replace certain amounts of text. For example, in the following piece of text I ...
Whoops! Looks like I removed the first column, but you wanted to keep just the first column.
Try :%s/\s*|.*$//which matches any amount of whitespace followed by a bar, followed by anything to end-of-line. Replace with nothing.
Regards, Chip Campbell
