Re: Replacing a string which is in a line and not in the beginning?

Niels Kobschätzki-2 wrote
> I have a file that looks like this:
> - This is a te- st
> - foo bar
>
> And I want to replace all occurrences of "- " when they are not at the
> beginning of the line. So the above mentioned file should look like:
> - This is a test
> - foo bar
>
> I tried to find something and it seems that in "normal" regex I would
> have to do something like ^.+(- .) or ^.?
> <pattern>
> but those don't work.
> What do I have to do to get the replacements I want?

I'm fairly new to Vim myself, but I just tried this.

I entered this into a new buffer --

- This is a te- st
- foo bar
- This is another - test I mean

and ran this from the command line (using "x" as the replacement text) --

:%s/\v^(.+)\- /\1x/g

and I got this:

- This is a texst
- foo bar
- This is another xtest I mean

Note that I used "\v" (very magic) to make Vim use regular expressions that
the rest of the world understands. :-)



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