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user288609
user288609

Reputation: 13055

regarding counting the number of columns in gvim

After opening a big csv file in gvim, how can I know how many columns are within this file?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 139

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172698

The csv.vim plugin provides a lot of functionality to work with CSV data. It includes a :NrColumns command.

Upvotes: 4

Randy Morris
Randy Morris

Reputation: 40947

A quick dirty hack would be to do something like:

:s/,//gn

Which would give you the number of commas on a single row. Add one and you have your number of columns (assuming no trailing comma, of course).

I say this is quick and dirty because it doesn't take into account quoted columns which can contain commas. I'm sure there might be a way to take that into account with a regex but it's probably not trivial.

Upvotes: 3

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