Re: substitution, transform string to list?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:46:06AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2020-07-17 11:10, meine wrote:
> > The data to transform:
> >
> > ABBEEL;1872/253;1882/576;1886/1925;1887/603;1887/1813;1894/1444;1898/3449
> > ABBEELS;1888/1401;1889/562;1891/2371;1899/3088;1902/732;1903/1509;1904/1317
> >
> > should become:
> >
> > ABBEEL;1872/253
> > ABBEEL;1882/576
> > ABBEEL;1886/1925
> > ABBEEL;1887/603
> > ABBEEL;1887/1813
> > ABBEEL;1894/1444
> > ABBEEL;1898/3449
> > ABBEELS;1888/1401
> > ABBEELS;1889/562
> > ABBEELS;1891/2371
> > ABBEELS;1899/3088
> > ABBEELS;1902/732
> > ABBEELS;1903/1509
> > ABBEELS;1904/1317
>
> You can do it in two passes, one to prefix each item on its own line:
>
> :%s/\%(^\([^;]*\).*\)\@<=\(;[^;]*\)/\r\1\2/g
>
> and then a second command to delete all the remnant lines (ones that
> are just the prefix which don't have a ";" in them):
>
> :v/;/d
>
> -tim

Thanks a lot!

//meine

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