Re: regex for a range that has a given number?

On Apr 22, 1:25 pm, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
> On 22-Apr-2010, at 10:14, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>
>
> > I frequently need to search for citations in papers by citation
> > numbers.
>
> > For exmaple, something like [7] [2-8] [2,4,8-10] in the maintext
> > represent what articles that are listed in the bibliography are cited.
> > Now, I want to search for where it cites citation number 7 in the
> > maintext (in this example, it is cited the three places in the
> > maintext).
>
> > But I don't see a very general way to search for such citation. I
> > suppect this may not be done by regex for every cases. But I'm not
> > sure. Do anybody have a good solution?
>
> Why can't you search for \[7\]
>
> Or am I missing something. is 2-8 also valid for 7? If so, I think you are out of luck for regex.

2-8 is also valid for 7.

Is there anything that are more powerful than regex available in vim
that can handle this case?

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