This seems to work well too (tested with 8.1):
  %s/\(\S\+\)\>.*\n/xx\1yyy,/

Regards,
-Arun

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 3:43 PM Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2022-09-06 14:45, andalou wrote:
> > I have the table:
> > 1001 John Sena 40000
> > 1002 Jafar Iqbal   60000
> > 1003 Meher Nigar   30000
> > 1004 Jonny Liver   70000
> > I'd like to print the first field, preceded by xx, and followed by yyy,
> > separated by commas, as in:
> > xx1001yyy, xx1002yyy, xx1003yyy, xx1004yyy
>
> I'd do it in two (or three) passes:
>
> 1) optionally copy the data and paste it where you want the resuts
> if you want to preserve it
>
> 2) over the range of that data, do a substitute
>
>   :%s/^\(\S\+\) .*/xx\1yyy,
>
> to put the prefix/suffix/comma in place
>
> 3) then join that range
>
>   :%j
>
> (and optionally remove the trailing comma)
>
> > And I'd like to get this output after the table. I think I can do it
> > with awk, but I'd like to do it with vim, if it is possible
>
> If you want to do it with awk:
>
>   awk '{printf("%sxx%syyy", NR==1?"":", ", $1)}END{print ""}'
>
> -tim
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