Hi meino.cramer!
On So, 08 Nov 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> tag_1>text_1</tag_1>
> tag_2>text_2</tag_2>
> tag_3>text_3</tag_3>
> tag_4>text_4</tag_4>
> tag_5>text_5</tag_5>
>
> and currently I cannot manage to remove the
>
> 'tag_<n>>' from the beginning of each line. Unfortunately
> the tags are of different lengths so a simple visual block
> deletion does not work here. I tried:
>
>
> :'<,'>s/^[^\>]\+>//g
This works for me on your sample text, you have given above. You can
also try to use a non-greedy expression:
s/^.\{-\}>//g
Which should delete everything from line start to the first closing
bracket >
> with the text in a visual block but it states to not to
> find the regexp'ed text.
Alternatively, you can visually select the first column, search for >
and then press d to delete the visual selected range.
regards,
Christian
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