Some times, we don't have sed, like windows environment.
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From: "Christian Brabandt" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:46 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Replace Just Needed
>
> Hi Ricky!
>
> On Di, 11 Aug 2009, Ricky wrote:
>
>> One line contains a number of same words:
>> ---
>> I've never saw a saw saw a saw
>> She never saw a saw saw a saw
>> ...
>> He never saw a saw saw a saw
>> ---
>>
>> I just want to replace the 2nd or 3rd "saw", Do you have any idea?
>
> In vim, you could use:
> :s/\(saw.\{-}\)\{2\}\zssaw/foobar
>
> to replace the third occurance.
>
> But I would probably filter the lines through sed, since sed makes it
> easier to select only a particular match. So the following would only
> match the 3rd saw with foobar:
>
> :%!sed 's/saw/foobar/3'
>
>
> regards,
> Christian
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> >
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