Re: sorting lines by term inside a tag

On 2015-06-16, Chris Lott wrote:
> I need to sort lines like this:
>
> <li><a href="http://foo.com/">Lisa</li>
> <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/">Bart</li>
> <li><a href="http://donuts.com/">Homer</li>
>
> by the name "inside" the a tag, thus:
>
> <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/">Bart</li>
> <li><a href="http://donuts.com/">Homer</li>
> <li><a href="http://foo.com/">Lisa</li>
>
> Can I do this within Vim?

The {pattern} argument tells the :sort command to ignore the text
matching the pattern. See

:help :sort

In your example, you want to skip everything through the '">', so
this would work:

:sort /.*">/

Regards,
Gary

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