Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Re: vimgrep

On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 12:12:28 PM UTC-5, hilal Adam wrote:
> Sorry if not correct platform for this question.</div>
> Need to use vimgrep/grep to find a particular string in c code.  I am trying to find all occurrences of &#39;**&#39; (pointer to pointer). But I get hundreds of lines of output for all comment lines which include a minimum of 2 &#39;*&#39;s.</div>
> Any help is appreciated.</div>
>
> </div>
> HA
> </div></div></div>

vimgrep, just like '/' searching in Vim, uses regular expressions. In a regular expression, * means "as many as possible of the preceding search atom" which normally means "as many as possible of the preceding character".

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