Re: Need help to remove multiple copies of text

On 22:15 Wed 24 Oct , Dan Thurman wrote:
>
> I have an XML document and wanted to remove
> the following strings:
>
> <text:alphabetical-index-mark text:string-value="String" text:key1="S"/>
>
> There are hundreds of places where the alphabetical-indexes
> are interspersed and "String", "key1" and "S" are variable, so
> what vi command string can I use to delete these text?
>
> I have tried many combinations, the simplest being:
>
> :1,$ s~<text:alphabetical-index-mark .*/>~~g
>
> but the problem is with ".*", of which the search
> pattern takes out everything to very the last "/>"
> pattern found which is not what I want.
>
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Hi Dan,

You can substitute the greedy match .* with something less 'hungry' ;)

:%s~<text:alphabetical-index-mark [^>]*/>~~g

This will work if none of the strings contain a '>'.

Best,
Marcin

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