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umeshr
umeshr

Reputation: 57

How to trim characters of match in Vim?

I want to trim the last five characters of a match in Vim. The search pattern is not a direct word, instead it is something like foo.*bar Here I want to trim the last five characters of the above match.

I tried :g/foo.*bar/norm $5X but this trims five characters at the end of the lines matching this pattern

Upvotes: 0

Views: 188

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196496

:help :global is not the right tool for the job.

With a substitution:

:%s/foo.*bar/\=submatch(0)[:-6]/g

See :help sublist and :help submatch().

Upvotes: 3

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