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Neerav
Neerav

Reputation: 1429

search and replace for forward slash

I am trying to replace multiple forward slashes "//" with a single slash "/".

How would you do that?

Also, How would you replace "asd/qwe/zxc" with "fgh/vbn"?

I was able to do this half way using below. But how do I use forward slash in the search string or the replace string.

:%s/asd.qwe.zxc/fgh/g

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4132

Answers (4)

user5733776
user5733776

Reputation: 

:%s/\/\//\#/gc

It replaces OpenSCAD comment (//) to Python comment (#). 

    // Faces: 60
    F = [
        [ 0,  1,  2], //  0
        [ 1,  3,  4], //  1
        [ 1,  4,  2], //  2
        [ 2,  4,  5], //  3
        [ 0,  2,  6], //  4

    # Faces: 60
    F = [
        [ 0,  1,  2], #  0
        [ 1,  3,  4], #  1
        [ 1,  4,  2], #  2
        [ 2,  4,  5], #  3
        [ 0,  2,  6], #  4

Upvotes: 0

kannanrbk
kannanrbk

Reputation: 7144

Try this

Esc :

:1,$s/asd\/qwe\/zxc/fgh\/vbn/g

You need to escape '/' using backslash '\' .

Upvotes: 1

RocketDonkey
RocketDonkey

Reputation: 37279

You can try using:

:%s/\/\//\//g

to replace all double slashes with single slashes (though I imagine a guru will show a much cooler way shortly :) ). The general idea is that you need to escape the slashes.

Upvotes: 2

D.Shawley
D.Shawley

Reputation: 59633

Either escape it or use different delimiters.

:s/\/\//\//g
:s#//#/#g

I prefer the latter.

Missed the second part:

:s/asd\/qwe\/zxc/fgh\/vbn/g
:s@asd/qwe/zxc@fgh/vbn@g

You can pick any delimiter that you want in the same manner that you could in ed or sed.

Upvotes: 13

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