Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vertical regexp
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:10:50 +0100
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vertical regexp
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:46:19 +0100
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to find two specific items of an ascii table of the
same column but of two adjacent rows ?
I am looking for some vimish solution - there is of course a way to
specify an highly complex and longish regexp which is very table
specific...
Is there a way to say "item below this item" or item(x,y) and item(
x,y+1)?
Thanks for any help in advance!
Have a nice weekend!
mcc
It may depend on the structure of your file: if "the item below this item" is
vertically aligned it will be relatively easy; if they aren't aligned, as in
lines of comma- or tab-separated items of widely varying length, it is
probably possible, but not in the same way; and it may require a function
rather than a regexp.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
This is your fortune.
Hi Tony,
sorry...I forgot to mention: It is a *very* simple aligned
ASCII-table, <space> is used as seperator.
It looks like this one
<128 chars of hex-crc><2 spaces><item to compare><2 spaces><full path/file>
where "file" possibly contains "weird" characters (at least from the
point of view of an unixxer) like spaces, braces, commata and so on
-- everything which makes regexp more complicate and a headache in
the evening ;)
Keep hacking!
mcc
OK, well, check ":help pattern-overview", I'm sure you will find what you
need. In addition, if you need to concatenate expressions to construct your
pattern, you may want to check ":help :normal" and ":help :let-@".
Best regards,
Tony.
--
For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.
Hi Tony!
THANKS A LOT! :O)
Its always a problem for a non-native English speaker like me to
first translate a "what I want" in "the name for it" and then
from (in my case) a "the name for it (german)" in "a name for it
(english)" and vim has always some special terminus technicus for
"what I want".....
Previously I would never had thought, that "let-@" has something to
do with my problem... ;)
kind regards,
mcc
":let-@" is about setting a register to the value of an expression. Once it is
known that one of the possible "settable" registers, the / register, holds the
current search pattern, the step from there to ":let-@" becomes obvious.
Best regards,
Tony.
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40. You tell the cab driver you live at
http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
41. You actually try that 123.elm.street address.
