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Nikhilesh Sarish Kulkarni
Nikhilesh Sarish Kulkarni

Reputation: 81

vim search and replace successive string occurrence with different string

Let’s say I have multiple STRING occurrences. I want to replace the 1st occurrence with STRING_A, 2nd occurrence with STRING_B, 3rd occurrence with STRING_C.

e.g

Color of my pant is STRING. Color of my hair is STRING. Color of my car is STRING.

After I run search and replace, I should get:

Color of my pant is STRING_A. Color of my hair is STRING_B. Color of my car is STRING_C.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 91

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172570

You can define a List of replacements, and then use :help sub-replace-expression to pop replacements off it:

:let r = ['bar', 'baz', 'bak']
:%substitute/STRING/\=remove(r, 0)/g

Upvotes: 0

perreal
perreal

Reputation: 97948

From vim wiki:

let @a=1 | %s/STRING/\='STRING_'.(@a+setreg('a',@a+1))/g

But this will give you STRING_1, STRING_2 etc.

Slight modification gives the desired result:

let @a=65 | %s/STRING/\='STRING_'.nr2char(@a+setreg('a',@a+1))/g

If you want to get the substitutions from an array, first define an array:

:let foo=['bar','baz','bak']

Then do the substitution:

let @a=0 | %s/STRING/\=get(foo, @a+setreg('a',@a+1))/g

This will give you:

 Color of my pant is bar. Color of my hair is baz. Color of my car is bak.

Upvotes: 2

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