On 2 Jan 2014, at 18:46, Cássio Marques wrote: > Try this: > > :%s/\v\s\|\s(\d+)\s(\w+)\s/ | \1 | \2 /g > > -- > Cássio Marques > > On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Barrie Stott wrote: > >> I have a few hundred lines of the following form: >> >> _x(MP188 | 103 God is our strength and refuge (Richard Bewes) >> _x(0 | 110 In God will I trust, though my counsellors say (The Psalter, 1912) >> _x(0 | 113 O Father you are sovereign in all the worlds you made (Margaret >> Clarkson) >> >> I want to replace '103 God' by '103 | God' in the first line and '110 In' by >> '110 | In' in the second, etc. >> >> Supposing the lines above to be 40-42, I was able to select the appropriate >> places in the lines with '/\d\s[A-Z]' and the spots became highlighted. >> However, I still want '3' for the digit and 'G' for the letter in the first >> substitution so I tried '40,42 s/(d)\s([A-Z])/\1 | \2/g' and it complained >> about '(d)\s([A-Z])' not being recognized. >> >> I'm now beginning to think it cannot be done so if anyone can help I'd be >> most grateful. >> >> It shouldn't be needed but, just in case, I'm on a Snow Leopard iMac. >> >> Barrie.
Many thanks for this since at first glance it seems to work well. I now need to go through your solution so that I understand it. You were amazingly speedy in answering (10 minutes) so I apologize for my delay in replying. No reply needed and I'm *really* grateful. Barrie. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
