On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Colin Beighley wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>> I want to do something like this
>>
>> word => ,
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> word => word,
>>
>> with search and replace. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> s/\(word\) => ,/\1 => \1,/
>
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> Ben
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Thanks! What I wanted was to match any word before the =>, as well as
preceding tabs, so I ended up using

:s/\(^\t*\)\t\(.*\) => ,/\1\t\2 => \2,/

Colin

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