Daniel Bye wrote:
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this:
http://site1/dir/;
http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone;
http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName;
http://site4/dir/;
I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";". My basic
regex is:
/http:.\+;/
But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried
various incatations to try and make my regex "non-greedy" but I can't
seem to come up with the correct combination.
How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon?
Tested in vi, not vim:
/http:[^;]*/
Dan
Thanks for your reply. I tried it in vim (or more specifically, gvim
7.2) and your example matches all semi-colons. However in vi, it does
stop at the first semi-colon as you say.
Can anyone please explain the difference?
Thanks,
Drew
--
Be a Great Magician!
Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse
http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
