On Apr 27, 3:36 am, "John Beckett" <[email protected]> wrote: > googler wrote: > > I have a file where I have words like X1, X2, ..., X16, X17, X18, .... > > I want to find out occurences of words containing a number > > greater than, say, 17. So basically, I want to find X18, X19, > > X20, etc. How can I do this in vim? In other words, can we > > use arithmetic expressions in search? If yes, how? > > I believe there is no way to search for a number depending on an > expression. You would have to do it manually, something like > this simple effort: > > /X1[89]\|X[2-9][0-9] > > John
Thanks for the reply. But it may not always be simple like you showed above. For example, if I wanted to only search for those numbers that are divisible by 7. If such a feature is currently not available in vim, it maybe a good idea to add it? Just a suggestion.. -- 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
