Re: Search pattern while excluding some words

John Cordes wrote:
> First a small bit of background. I have created a little
> bash script which runs pdftotext on a PDF file (containing
> obituaries, with surnames in upper-case), then invokes vim
> commands to massage the resulting text file, basically to
> break the file into paragraphs.
>
> I then open the resulting text file in
> vim and search for surnames which may have remained
> embedded within a paragraph; I use
>
> /[A-Z]\{4,\}
>
> for this (ignoring the occasional 3 letter surname).
>
> Here's my question: while running this search on 4 or
> more uppercase characters, I would like to be able to skip
> past (ignore) certain commonly occurring 'words' such as
> RCMP, QEII, SPCA and such. I want to jump immediately to
> the next occurring surname.
>
> I am not particularly good with regexes, and haven't found
> anything which seems at all close to being able to do
> this.
>
Hello!

You might find LogiPat helpful; see
http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#LOGIPAT .

:LP !"RCMP" && !"QEII" && !"SPCA" && "[A-Z]\{4,\}"

LogiPat allows boolean logic to work with regexp patterns.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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