fuzzylogic25 wrote: > I am trying to strip a bunch of links from a webpages source > file. I find that whenever a "http://...."; is displayed, it > ends with a < ..> after it. > so for example, in source code we might have > "http://www.google.com <br />". > > So what I am trying to do is, copy the link only, to a new > text file.
All you need is a pattern (regular expression, get the mind- numbing details at ':help pattern') that finds the URL (or whatever text you want to copy). Then use the tip that I mentioned a few posts ago (the CopyMatches script): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Copy_the_search_results_into_clipboard If anyone has a suggestion for the search pattern, please reply (a suggestion is below). Copy the script into a file, say copysearch.vim and save the file. In Vim, when viewing that file you can enter ':so %' to source (execute) the script (% = current file). Or, you can enter ':so copysearch.vim' to directly source it. In the file with the links, try some searches and see if they find what you want. For this, you want the search hit to be highlighted: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_matches An example search would be the following (type this): /http:[0-9a-zA-Z?=+._~&/\-]\+ Rather than typing it, you can copy all text after the initial '/' to the clipboard, then in Vim type (three characters): / Ctrl-R + Then type the following command added by the script and save: :CopyMatches Ctrl-W n "+p :w my.txt Please bottom post on this list. Quote a small (relevant) part of the message you are replying to, and put your text underneath. Delete text that is not needed to understand your reply John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
