Re: Inserting Line Numbers into Existing Text

On Tue, April 5, 2011 12:42 am, Israel Chauca F. wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:
>> How do I insert the current line number into a text file; how can I do
>> this while padding to six digits?
>
>
> This should do the trick:
>
> :%s/^/\=repeat(0,6-len(line('.'))).line('.').'^I'/
>
> ^I represents a tab. It adds the number of zeros, the line number and the
> tab. It uses :help sub-replace-expression

I suggest to use the printf() function, which makes the whole
statement much more readable:
:%s/^/\=printf("%06d\t", line('.'))

regards,
Christian

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