Max Dyckhoff wrote:
It seems like you are just trying to join groups of three lines, which you can
do very easily using this following command:
:g/./j!3
Hope that helps!
Max
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:48 AM
To: vim@vim.org
Subject: vim | reformatting question
Hi,
I'm trying to fix a file in the following format :
5,329;
1999;
<a> Univ Washington</a>;
695;
2001;
NHLBI;
684;
1998;
<a> Stanford Univ</a>;
3,537;
1998;
La Jolla Inst Allergy & Immunol;
3,333;
1996;
<a> BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSP</a>;
2,967;
1998;
<a> Northwestern Univ</a>;
2,936;
2002;
<a> NHLBI</a>;
2,695;
1996;
<a> ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSP</a>;
2,581;
1998;
<a> Merck Res Labs</a>;
into this:
5,329;1999;<a> Univ Washington</a>;
695;2001;NHLBI;
684;1998;<a> Stanford Univ</a>;
3,537;1998;La Jolla Inst Allergy & Immunol;
3,333;1996;<a> BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSP</a>;
etc...
I came up with this but sth is missing...
:%s/\(^\d,\d\d\d;$\|^\d\d\d;$\)\(^\d\d\d\d;$\)\(^\D\+;$\)/\1\2\3
Your code and Tim's do exactly what I want to do. Thanks!
--
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, MD
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology
University of Ioannina School of Medicine
University Campus
Ioannina 45110
Greece
Tel: (+30) 26510-97804
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