RE: How to find and replace using negative lookahead

Thanks for your answer, I have tried it and it had worked fine.

Best regards,

César V.

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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:09:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: How to find and replace using negative lookahead

On Friday, June 8, 2012 5:12:34 PM UTC+12, César Valencia wrote:
> But, when I try to do the substitution with
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>  :%s/K Value=\(0000\)\@!/K Value=1300/gc

You're not matching the value you want to replace.  Just add something to match the digits, say \d\d\d\d.  The \@! negative look ahead is zero width.

:%s/K Value=\(0000\)\@!\d\d\d\d/K Value=1300/gc

Regards, John

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