Re: vim: comment regex

On Monday, August 6, 2012 2:49:40 PM UTC-5, ping wrote:
> thanks Ben.
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> I miss perl on the ability to comment liekt his:
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> $dataline=~(/
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> \s*
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> (\w+) #wanted value
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> \s*
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> = #=
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> \s*{\s*
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> (.*?) #cli
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> \s*}\s*
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> (?:
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> (?: #either followed by ptn(s)
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> : #:
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> \s*{\s*
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> (.*?) #ptn1
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> \s*}
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> (?: #ptn2 or nothing
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> :
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> \s*\{\s*
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> (.*?) #ptn2
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> \s*\}\s*
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> | #or...
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> \s* #nothing
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> )
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> )
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> | #or
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> \s* #no ptns at all
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> )
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> /x)
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I figured that's what you meant. You can't do that in Vim script in the same way, but you can run perl (or python, scheme, LUA, etc.) directly from Vim script, so depending on what you're doing it might be possible to drop into Perl for a regex or something.

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