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Yulong Ao
Yulong Ao

Reputation: 1261

vim: how to substitute like this situation

The sample for substituting:

hello world (one) hello world (two two) hello world (three three three)

The result I want:

hello world $one# hello world $two two# hello world $three three three#

I've tried to use:

s/(\(\w\\+\s*\))/$\1#/g

but it does not work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (2)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196476

Doing these two simple substitutions is a lot more intuitive and a lot faster than wasting your time trying to come up with a single one:

:s/(/\$/g
:s/)/#/g

Anyway:

:s/(\([^)]\+\))/\$\1#/g

The search part: we are looking for an opening parenthese, followed by one or more characters that are not closing parentheses that we put in a capture group, followed by a closing parenthese.

The replacement part: we replace with a dollar sign, followed by our capture group, followed by an octothorpe.

Upvotes: 2

Yulong Ao
Yulong Ao

Reputation: 1261

Thanks very much for everyone. I have woke out it.:s/(\(\(\w*\s*\)*\))/$\1#/g. The preceding command can give the right result I want.

Upvotes: 0

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