Re: Search & Replace

Hi Kunal!

On Fr, 02 Apr 2010, Kunal Bajpai wrote:

> To this html code I wanted to select the text between the tags and replace
> the original text with \n character removed. There is a more complex example
> that I wanted to ask, here is the problem:
>
> Original
> ______________________________
> <p>Mike
> <strong>Gilbert </strong>
> Senior</p>
> _____________________________
>
> After search & replace:
> ______________________________
> <p>Mike <strong>Gilbert</strong> Senior</p>
> _____________________________
>
> I hope you really got what I was asking.

Try this:
:%s/\(<p>\)\(\w\+\)\_s*\(\w\+\)\_s*\(\w\+\)\(<\/p>\)/\1 \2 <strong>\3<\/strong> \4 \5/
(one line)

which boils down to:
:%s/ " substitute on every line
" anything that matches
\(<p>\) " the <p> tag and remember it
\(\w\+\) " a word (which means a string that
" matches the range 0-9A-Za-z_ but no space
" and remember it
\_s* " a space or linebreak
\(\w\+\) " a word and remember it (see above)
\_s* " a space or line break
\(\w\+\) " a word and remember it (see above)
\(<\/p>\) " the closing tag (and remeber it)
/ " and replace the match part
\1 " the first remembered string followed by a space
\2 " the second remembered string followed by a space
<strong> " the strong tag
\3 " the third remembered string followed by
<\/strong> " the closing tag followed by a space followed by
\4 " the 4th remembered word followed by a space and
\5 " the 5th remembered word
/

regards,
Christian

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