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.
LOL. Do yourself a favour and stop "Googling". Vim has a built-in help system. To access help for regular expressions: :help regexp :he regexp :he r[TAB] ... and search for non-greedy (or just scroll down). > How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? You've already received a few answers, but I'll add one that may be even better -- rely on external programs instead. Vim can be a bit clunky at times. The simplest and most typical usage would be :[range] !command If using Perl $ perldoc -h $ perldoc -q regex -- George _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
