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VIM - Replace based on a search regex
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What i would like to do :
Every time i find something based on s[w|l].*[0-9]\.\*
replace the end of that string\search .* with %s/\.\*/\\\\\.\.\*/g
Already tried with standard search and replace, but couldn't do it.
Thanks
Just wrap your search pattern in escaped parentheses \(\)
, and use a backreference \1
in the replacement string:
:%s/\(s[w|l].*[0-9]\)\.\*/\1\\\\.*/g
You can have several \(\)
subexpressions in your search string, and can use them both in the search string itself and in the replacement string via \1
, \2
, ... . Subexpressions are simply numbered by order of occurence in the search string.