On Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:42:06 PM UTC+2, shawn wilson wrote: > Is there a way of using a variable in a regex? > > I'm constantly looking for the first octet of IP addresses, so I do: > /[^0-9\.]10\. > > > > What I've been doing is hitting / and up arrow and then edit but if I > could store [^0-9\.] in something easily accessed, that would save > some time.
Slightly off-topic, but wanted to make you aware that [^\.] matches anything that isn't a dot AND IS NOT A BACKSLASH. IOW backslash is not escaping the dot inside the [] range. Cheers, Lech -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
