On Mon, Mar 30, at 03:00 ivan budiselic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll post a simplified version of my problem. Basically, I want to
> substitute every occurrence of 'a' (the letter a, without the quotes) with
> 'b', but only if 'a' is not inside a string, by which I mean it is not
> enclosed in double quotes.
>
> So, for the line:
>
> 1234 a a "a" a
>
> I'd like to get:
>
> 1234 b b "a" b
>
> The question is, is this possible and how.
>
> What I've tried is
> let line = substitute(line, '\([^\"]\{-}\)a', "\\1b", "g")
you may try:
let line = substitute(line, '"\@<!a"\...@!', 'b', 'g')
see,
:help zero-width
> Ivan
Regards,
Agathoklis.
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