Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Hello, > > Christian Brabandt wrote on 22.12.09: >> On Tue, December 22, 2009 10:35 am, epanda wrote: >>> I detect the first column of a csv file like that. >>> >>> ^\([^;]\+\); >>> >>> >>> I would like to search in the match string those which contains >>> spaces. > >> ^\([^; ]*\)\s[^;]*; > > Could you explain these regexes? I reckon that > > ^\([^;]\+\); > > Means: at least once anything but a semicolon at the beginning of a line and > then a semicolon. (But why the grouping \(...\)?) > > But in Christians enhancement ^\([^; ]*\)\s[^;]*; I am confused: i read it as: > > > ^\([^; ]*\) One or more times a semicolon followed by a space
""" zero or more "anything except a semicolon or space (or newline, implicitly)" at the beginning of the line """ so this is everything before the space-of-interest > \s[^;]* and followed by another whitespace and anything but a > semicolon > zero or more times > ; and then a semicolon yes :) -tim -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
