Like butter!! Thank-you very much. --Dan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Israel Chauca F. <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: > > > I have a file that consists of approx 400K lines and 25762K chars > > > > this work is the result of someone who has copied existing files onto > itself > > multiple times. > > > > In an effort to "decrypt" this mess I am: > > a) inserting .pp to indicate paragraph beginnings > > b) replacing sentence endings with \r so that each line consists of one > > "sentence." > > c) sorting all of the lines so that I can use uniq to generate a list of > > unique sentences. > > > > While this works it fails to provide any context, therefore I want to > insert > > the line number @ the beginning of each line and follow it with a tab and > > then have uniq ignore the first field with: > > uniq --skip-fields=1 > > > > or, if I pad line numbers with leading zeros I could use: > > uniq --skipchars=6 > > > > So my question is: > > How do I insert the current line number into a text file; how can I do > this > > while padding to six digits? > > > This should do the trick: > > :%s/^/\=repeat(0,6-len(line('.'))).line('.').'^I'/ > > ^I represents a tab. It adds the number of zeros, the line number and the > tab. It uses :help sub-replace-expression > > Israel > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
