Hello everyone! First off, let me say that I am a designer, and don't have the higher level of thinking required to do what I would like to accomplish. That being said, if anyone could help me, I would be so, so grateful and appreciative!
Here's what I've got - a tab delimited text file ~1.6GB. It's a huge file. Step 1: What I need to do is search out anything that has the word "ambulance" and copy the entire line in VIM. Here's a example of l entry: 1003006180 MEDICWEST AMBULANCE, INC. O 9 W DELHI AVE NORTH LAS VEGAS 890327836 NV US Ambulance Service Supplier Y F A0425 Ground mileage 73737.3 7873 12047 7.0418345939 0.8138691894 26.055025476 8.2428463203 5.5882732348 1.3276220145 There are thousands of entries in the text file, so to manually search through is impossible. Step 2: I then need to extract these entries that contain "ambulance" (the entire line)and save all of them to another text file. From there, I can import into Excel. I had considered going the MySQL route, but that's shaky for me, being a pixel pusher :) Is this something that I can easily do in VIM? It seems like it's built for that. Once again, thank you very much for any time or assistance you may be able to provide! Cheers, G -- -- 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/d/optout.
