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Bravo
Bravo

Reputation: 677

Adding quotes at start and end

I have a list of dates in a .txt file:

11/05/2017
12/05/2017
15/05/2017
16/05/2017
17/05/2017

I need to add a quote before and after them and end each line with a semicolon instead of a space.

My output should be:

'11/05/2017'; '12/05/2017';'15/05/2017'; '16/05/2017'; '17/05/2017'

How do I get this in Vim?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1144

Answers (4)

Cogwizzle
Cogwizzle

Reputation: 550

There is a cool plugin that can surround the statement in quotes. It is called Surround.Vim. http://vimawesome.com/plugin/surround-vim. As far as the second part I would write a macro to remove the line break at the end of the line and add a semicolon. You can run macros on multiple lines at once. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Upvotes: 0

ntalbs
ntalbs

Reputation: 29458

Replace the text with regex, then join the lines.

:%s/\(.*\)/'\1';

Then ggVG to select all, then J to join the lines.

Update: As @pbogut mentioned in the comment, you can do this at once with this regex:

:%s/\(.*\)\n/'\1';_

Note that I added _ instead of (space) as it is not visible. You should use space instead.

Upvotes: 4

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195269

usually macro will beat ex command in vimgolf. ;)

(assume your cursor is on first line):

0qqi'<ESC>A'; <ESC>Jq

then

99@q

To replay.

Or using recursive macro to avoid the 99

Oh, after that there would be a ; at the end.

Upvotes: 0

Luc Hermitte
Luc Hermitte

Reputation: 32976

You can also do everything in one :substitute by matching the newline.

%s/\v(.{-})\n/'\1';

Upvotes: 0

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