On 2011-03-02 14:29, Raleigh Rinehart wrote: > Suppose I have in one file several lines (could be 100s of such lines) > like this: > .. > <Folder><![CDATA[C:\work\sources\foo\bar\baz\MODULEX\lib]]></Folder> > .. > > Now in another file I have a list of words, in this instance separated > by newlines, but could be changed to space/tab/comma/etc delimited. > The number of words equals the number of lines that match from the > first file. > > Now what I would like to do is to replace each occurrence of MODULEX > in file1 with the corresponding word in file 2. > > By corresponding I mean if the lines (from file 1) and the words (from > file 2) were both well ordered sets then the match is determined by > the index into the set, or in other words a one-to-one correspondence.
I think what I would do is paste the two files together side-by-side. You can do this in vim using visual-block mode, or if you're on a unix machine you could use the paste command. :%!paste file2.txt file1.txt or $ paste file2.txt file1.txt | vim - After that it's just a simple line-by-line substitution. You could even use sed if you wanted. :%s/\v(\w+)\t(.*)MODULEX/\2\1/
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