On 09/14/10 17:36, Stephen Rasku wrote:
Is there a way in vim to search for text in specific columns? I want
to find all instances where every 8th column (i.e 8, 16, 32, etc.) is
not '0'. Is this possible?
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: the "how" depends on whether they're delimited
columns (such as a comma-delimited or tab-delimited file) or if
they're just raw character-count-from-beginning-of-line. The
latter is the simple case, where you can use the \%8c atom
(there's a similar \%v for virtual columns, which take tabs into
consideration)
:help /\%c
:help /\%v
So you can do your search something like
/\%8c0
(I might have a fenceposting error there, but you can adjust the
"8" for whichever column you want)
For the more complex case of a simple tab/comma delimited file
(not with quotable delimiters), you can do something like
/^\%([^\t]*\t\)\{7}0\t " tab delim
/^\%([^,]*,\)\{7}0, " comma delim
For quotable-delimiters such as
col1,"col2,col2,col2",col3, ...
it's a bit more complex. Doable, but more complex (if this is
your case, let me know and I'll expound).
-tim
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