Re: basic question: quick split like awk

Is there a way to split a line automatically like awk would? Given A quick brown fox jumped over , awk '{print $3}' ... == brown Well, Vim supports passing a range of lines through awk, so assuming you have awk available, you can just do :%!awk '{print $3}' Fairly

Re: basic question: quick split like awk

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Ben K. wrote: Hi, Is there a way to split a line automatically like awk would? Given A quick brown fox jumped over , awk '{print $3}' ... == brown or like in perl split(':',$line)... I'd like to do within vim something like :s/{some notation}/\3