Tim Chase wrote:
I have a text that has many occurrences of a pattern . I want to delete
every consecutive occurrence, e.g.
Pattern Pattern other text Pattern Pattern Pattern Pattern other text
Pattern Pattern Pattern
should look like this:
Pattern other text Pattern other text Pattern
I've used:
:%s/\(Pattern\s\+\)\(Pattern\)/\1/g
but have to run this more than once with: %&g to result the wanted text.
Can I do this with one command only? If not can I write a while function?:
You seem to be close. The following did it for me,
:%s/\(Pattern\)\(\s\+Pattern\)\+/\1/g
or, if you're lazy,
:%s/\(Pattern\)\(\s\+\1\)\+/\1/g
(no need to type the Pattern a 2nd time)
HTH,
-tim
I tried Jorgen' s code (all possible ways) but I still had to run the
command more than once. Tim's worked great. I forgot to mention that
pattern is a regexp, so Tony's couldn't be tested. Thank you all for
your time.
By the way, can someone explain if I could the while function???
Thanks,
Nikos
