Re: Search pattern while excluding some words

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:08:40PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote:
> Le vendredi 06 mars 2015 à 08:30, John Cordes a écrit:
> > 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.
>
> You can try something like this (add other acronyms as you will):
>
> /\<\(RCMP\|QEII\|SPCA\)\@![A-Z]\{4,\}
>
> It means match any uppercase word of at least four letters, so long as
> RCMP, etc., doesn't match at the same position (which is the beginning
> of a word, thanks to \<).
>
> Best,
> Paul

Thanks Paul -- I appreciate your response.
John

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