RE: regex help
>>>Well,
>>>:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
>>> ^
>>>works, but I'd have to run it 12 times if there are twelve blanks
>>>after the filled in line.
>>Hm? Not sure why you escaped the '{'. Apparently didn't need to
>>after
>>the "\s".
>You are right - it was a typo - I actually need to escape both of them
-
>:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s\{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
>^ ^
Ah, lookit that... '[' is normally magic unless you escape it to
literal text, and '{' is normally literal text unless you escape it to
magic. Eerie, don't think I had occasion to put that to the test
before.
Hah, learn something new every day...
Been using "{#}" notation in lex/js/perl so long, don't think I had
occasion to actually use them in 'vim', else I would've run into that
problem before.
Re: regex help
:g/^\s\{8}/-s/^\(.\{8}\).*\n\zs\s\{8}/\1
I don't understand that regex completely - but it deletes
lines of data :-)
Looks like it globably matches the 'blank start' lines, then
searches in that for the pattern - thus deleting the third
line...
That's really odd...the "\zs" *should* be forcing the substitute
to start on the "next" line. I suspect I've stumbled across an
odd bug? Switching it to the following
:g/^\s\{8}/-s/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\n\)\s\{8}/\1\2\1
worked, though in theory *should* be the same sort of thing.
It's also much shorter and more readable than the "\=" version I
sent second.
What's the -s do as compared to just s after the g/pattern/
The -s is a range/offset ("-", which is the same as "-1", meaning
"back one line") and the command ("s"ubstitute).
For your bedtime reading, they break down as
:g on every line
/^\s\{8}/ starting with 8 whitespace characters
- go to the previous line
s/ and substitute
^ from the beginning of the line
\(.\{8}\) make note of 8 "whatever"s as "\1"
==[non-working]
.*and skip the rest of the line
\nand a newline
\zs and start the replacement here
treating everything before the \zs as
merely required context
==[working]
\(.*\n\) make note of the rest of the line as "\2"
===
\s\{8} the 8 whitespace characters we want to replace
The replacement in the first [non-working] *should* simply be the
thing we tagged as \1. In the second [working] version, the
replacement is "the first tagged thing followed by the second
tagged thing (namely, the whole previous line remains untouched)
followed by the first thing tagged thing again"
> :g/^\s\+/k a|?^\S?y|'a|s/^\s\+/\=strpart(@", 0, strlen(submatch(0)))
That works dunno what it does... but that works :-)
I'm going to record that little gem, and put it aside for a bedtime
puzzle I think.
It helps to break it at the pipes :)
:g/^\s\+ on lines beginning with some whitespace
k amark that line as "a"
| and
?^\S? search backwards for a line beginning w/ non-ws
y yanking that line into the scratch register
| and
'a jump back to the "a" mark we placed earlier
| and
s/ do a substitute
^\s\+ of the leading whitespace[*]
/ with
\= the results of this expression
strpart( a piece of
@",the stuff we yanked previously
0, starting at the beginning
strlen(and running for the length of
submatch(0)the whitespace[*] we're replacing
))
It's a bit terse to say the least, and has slightly odd behaviors
if you have staircased indentation like
first line
second line
third line
where you'll end up with
first line
firssecond line
firsseconthird line
I'm glad they should save you oodles of time...that's one of the
great things about Vim :)
-tim
(is this email a sign I need to get a life? :)
Re: regex help
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Re: regex help
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On 16-May-07, at 2:23 PM, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
:g/^\(.{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
Well,
:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
^
works, but I'd have to run it 12 times if there are twelve blanks
after the filled in line.
Hm? Not sure why you escaped the '{'. Apparently didn't need to
after
the "\s".
You are right - it was a typo - I actually need to escape both of them -
:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s\{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
^ ^
Brian
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Re: regex help
I'm trying to work out if it's possible to refer to 'the previous
line' in a regex.
e.g. if the first 8 characters of a line are blank,
^\s{8}
replace them with the 8 characters at the start of the previous line.
Ideally it would handle a line a time, thus multiple blank line
starts would be filled in with the last non blank start.
Something like the following (untested) regexp should do the trick:
:%s/^\(.\{8}\).*\n\zs\s\{8}/\1
or
:%s/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\n)\s\{8}/\1\2\1
Playing around with this a little more ("how did you spend your
morning, dear?" "Oh, just playing around with some regular
expressions for a guy on a email list, one could expand it from 8
spaces to N spaces with something like
:g/^\s\+/k a|?^\S?y|'a|s/^\s\+/\=strpart(@", 0,
strlen(submatch(0)))
It tromps on your scratch register, and your "a" mark (the "k a"
and "'a" bits) but it is a little more flexible.
If you need multiples of a given number of spaces, you could
alter it to
:g/^\(\s\{4}\)\+/...
which would be multiples of 4 whitespace characters.
-tim
Re: regex help
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On 16-May-07, at 1:05 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
:g/^\s\{8}/-s/^\(.\{8}\).*\n\zs\s\{8}/\1
I don't understand that regex completely - but it deletes lines of
data :-)
Looks like it globably matches the 'blank start' lines, then searches
in that for the pattern - thus deleting the third line...
What's the -s do as compared to just s after the g/pattern/
Brian
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RE: regex help
>>:g/^\(.{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
>Well,
>:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
>^
>works, but I'd have to run it 12 times if there are twelve blanks
>after the filled in line.
Hm? Not sure why you escaped the '{'. Apparently didn't need to after
the "\s".
>I suppose global picks all the lines, then operates on them.
Ideally, yeh. Wondered if the op for lines 3-4 would fill in the chars,
then the op would also work on lines 4-5, or if it'd still think the 1st
chars be blank and skip to lines 5-6 as matching the pattern.
>That's a start - thanks!
No worries.
Re: regex help
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On 16-May-07, at 12:49 PM, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
:g/^\(.{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
Well,
:g/^\(.\{8}\)\(.*\)\n\(\s{8}\)/s//\1\2\r\1/
^
works, but I'd have to run it 12 times if there are twelve blanks
after the filled in line.
I suppose global picks all the lines, then operates on them.
That's a start - thanks!
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