Tobia wrote on 02/04/2007 23:51:
> Bob Hiestand wrote:
>> Tobia wrote:
>>> Arnaud Bourree wrote:
>>>> I've Xml document with attribute likes:
>>>> foo="00 12 AF"
>>>> I want to replace with:
>>>> foo="0x00 0x12 0xAF"
>>> this works:
>>>
>>> %s/\%(\%(foo=\"\)\@<=\%([0-9A-F]\{2\}\s\)*\)\@<=\([0-9A-F]\{2\}\)/0x\1/g
>> In using :s with the /g flag, I take it the potential changes are
>> marked first, and then executed, per line?
>
> It would seem so.
>
> By the way, I would have used a simpler pattern for such a task:
>
> %s/\v%(foo\="[^"]*)@<=(<\x\x>)/0x\1/g
Thanks that is exactly what I expect: it works for all values listed in
foo attribute. I don't need to repeat the command.
Good lesson for me today: keep it simple ;-)
>
>
>> I prefer when dealing with that many special characters to use the
>> very-magic form
>
> Me too. I can't stand trying to match \( \) with my eyes, they just
> don't look right, not to mention \{ \? \+... Egrep and Perl have it
> right. I wish I could turn very-magic on by default.
>
>
> Tobia
>
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