CODEWITHSUNDEEP
regexvim
astrasleepz
astrasleepz

Reputation: 404

Find and remove all parenthesis data in VIM

I have a csv files in VIM that looks like this:

aaa,bbb,ccc (Friday, 23/06/17)
ddd,eee,fff (Saturday, 24/06/17)
ggg,hhh,iii (Sunday, 25/06/17)

I would like to delete all parenthesis & its content to look like this:

aaa,bbb,ccc
ddd,eee,fff
ggg,hhh,iii

I have tried doing this but it's only deleting the parenthesis

:%s/(*)//g

Upvotes: 2

Views: 631

Answers (2)

EarthDragon
EarthDragon

Reputation: 755

You almost had it, you're missing the .:

:%s/(.*)//g

The dot matches all the characters, so using .* means find all strings of characters of any length

Edit:

As sundeep stated, g if for matching all occurrences in the same line and .* will greedily match from the first ( to the last ) in the line, so there won't be another to match in the same line, so it can be removed. You can match only simple pairs of braces with ([^(]*) which means find any string of characters that don't include ( that is surrounded by (). So the modified suggestion is to use:

:%s/([^(]*)//g

Upvotes: 7

dlmeetei
dlmeetei

Reputation: 10371

:%s/(.*)//g or da( from inside the () for each line if you intend to delete few leaving others.

Upvotes: 2

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