Re: Search & replace

Superb TanParker. It worked like a charm :-)

Looks like \1 was the solution to extract pattern in .*

Thanks.

On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 12:29:06 PM UTC+5:30, TanParker wrote:
> I think the following pattern shoud work
>
>
> :%s/Figure of \(.*\) =/\0 \1/g
>
>
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> > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:52:47 -0800
> > From: wherei...@gmail.com
> > To: vim...@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: Search & replace
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to search & replace a particular pattern like below
> >
> > Replace
> >
> > Figure of xx =
> > Figure of yyy =
> > Figure of ghd =
> > Figure of yry =
> >
> > with
> >
> > Figure of xx = xx
> > Figure of yyy = yyy
> > Figure of ghd = ghd
> > Figure of yry = yry
> >
> > I am looking at a command similar to below:-
> >
> > :1,$ s/Figure of .* = /\0
> >
> > What I intended was the .* will pick up the characters between "Figure of" & "=" & put it in \0, but looks like \0 takes the value of entire search string. Is there some smart command where I can achieve the above search & replace?
> >
> > Thanks for the advance help.
> >
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