On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:15:25 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";". My basic > regex is: > > /http:.\+;/ > > But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried > various incatations to try and make my regex "non-greedy" but I can't > seem to come up with the correct combination. > > How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon?
AFAIK, there's no greediness modifier in vim regex. However, you can use character classes to solve your problem: %s/http:[^;]\+/foo/g -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
