Re: Using wild characters in replace pattern

Hi MaLpAsO!

On Mo, 22 Mär 2010, MaLpAsO wrote:

> I would like to know how I can use a successful pattern match
> containing wild characters in the replace patters. > Egg:
> I want to search for patterns like "IN-a3-OUT", "IN-11-OUT" and
> replace it with patterns like "IN-a3-", "IN-11-"
> i.e. I will be searching like s/IN-.*-OUT/
> How can I do this replacement

Not sure I understood. Does this what you want:
:%s/IN-\w\+-\zsOUT\ze//g

regards,
Christian

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