On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 04:17:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am curious whether this kind of meta-regexp is
> possible with vim:
>
> I want to match a certain kind of pattern and want to
> do "something" with it.
>
> The kind of pattern does not describe a group of chars
> but their relation to each other.
>
> Example:
> I want to search for a number sequence like
> 1221
> and also
> 2332
> and also
> 3443
> and also....
>
> Or:
> I want to find a sequence of five identical characters. The
> character itsself doesn't matter.
>
> There is no limit to complexity of this kind of pattern. The only
> limit seems to be my brain.
>
> Is there a kind of "general recipe" to construct such patterns and
> to instruct vim to use them as wanted ?
>
> Happy editing!
> mcc
>
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Five identical characters would be: /\[a-z,A-Z]\{4}/ I believe...
Numbers would be: /\d\d\{2}\d/
I really would recommendate this guide for regexp:
http://larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~cthuang/vim/files/vim-regex/vim-regex.htm
It's very good
regard
iveqy
