On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org>wrote:
> > On Fri, September 25, 2009 7:43 am, Jeremy Conlin wrote: > > I know there are some regex wizards out there, I am in need of your help. > > I have lines in my file that look like one of the following two > > > > Some text & more text & (some white space) & ... > > Some text & more text & (some numbers, :, or -) & ... > > > > For the life of me I can't get my regular expression to differentiate > > between the two. This is what I tried (but it found both lines): > > > > \_^\(.\{-}\s&.\{-}&\s*\)\(\s\{-}[\d:-]\{1,}\) > > You are at least missing the paranthesis in your pattern and I believe > the \d form is not valid inside []. Using the following pattern > > ^\(.\{-}\s&.\{-}&\s*\)\((\s\{-}[0-9:-]\{1,})\) > > works, assuming you want to match the following line: > Some text & more text & (12349:-) & ... > > regards, > Christian > That didn't quite work and it's my fault for not giving better examples. Here are two lines: The genealogies & & 1:2--17 & & 3:23--38 & & \\ Elisabeth's seclusion & Judaea: Bethlehem & & & 1:24--25 & & \\ I want my regular expression to find the first line and not the second because there is non-whitespace between the second and third ampersand. What I'm trying to do is replace "1:2--17" with "\index{1:2--17}" Is that example more clear? Thanks, Jeremy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---