On Thu, May 5, 2011 4:55 pm, cyboman wrote:
> i'm writing a script to modify the copyright notice. the problem is
> that are multiple notices in the file. i need to be able to find a
> line where the last notice occurs. vim search() function finds only
> the first pattern occurrence. does anybody know of a way to find the
> last pattern occurrence?
>
> here is the example:
>
> copyright 2008, company a
> copyright 2009, company b
> copyright 2010, company c
> copyright 2011, company d
>
> i need to be able to find the last occurrence of the following pattern
> copyright \d\{4}.
Jumping to the last line and searching backwards should work:
:$
:echo search('copyright \d\{4}', 'bnW')
regards,
Christian
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