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Reputation: 15

Remove unwanted spaces between angle brackets

first but not least post here. I’d like some help with repetitive tasks that I’m performing at job right now. There are: How can I substitute in Vim a way to remove unwanted spaces within angle brackets from a mail list? Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out a clever way to deal with, I struggled a lot using \zs and \ze features, lookahead lokbehind regex but without a satisfactory solution. There are a sample:

Bilbo Baggins <bilbo.  baggins @ middleearth.net>; Galadriel < galadriel  @middleearth.net  >; Daeron < [email protected] >; Gandalf <  gandalf @middleearth.net>; Thorin II Oakenshield  < thorin.oakenshield  @ middleearth.net >; Aragorn < aragorn @ middleearth.net

And removing unwanted spaces will result in:

Bilbo Baggins <[email protected]>; Galadriel <[email protected]>; Daeron <[email protected]>; Gandalf <[email protected]>; Thorin II Oakenshield  <[email protected]>; Aragorn <[email protected]

If anyone can help I would be very grateful.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 321

Answers (1)

Meninx - メネンックス
Meninx - メネンックス

Reputation: 6421

I don't know if there is a missing > at the end of your sample or not but the command below should work anyway:

:s/<.\{-\}\(>\|$\)/\=substitute(submatch(0),'\s','','g')/g

Upvotes: 2

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