I would like to remove everything after a text highlight in a line for
all the lines in a file.
What are the commands to be used in Vim. I would appreciate your help.
000000,0000000,000000
000000,0000000,000000
I want to remove everything after "," for all the lines.
You have two commas...if you want to delete everything after the
first comma, you can use
:%s/,.*/,
If you want to delete everything after the first comma
*including* the comma, you can use
:%s/,.*
If you want to delete everything after the 2nd comma, you can use
:%s/,[^,]*,\zs.*/
And if you want to delete everything after the 2nd comma (but
including the comma, you can just use
:%s/,[^,]*\zs,.*/
Or, if all your columns align, you can use visual-block mode with
control+V to create a block across the characters in question,
and then just hit "d" to delete.
I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to do it, but that should
get you started.
-tim
