💭 Bob Belderbos on X: "Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim h...
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!https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055

Date: October 5, 2023

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I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.

> I wanted to replace all occurrences of:
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> name,name@example.com,0,171,,2023-09-21
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> With:
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> name,name@example.com
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> Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim?
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> :%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/

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