Re: Finding all words

Hi,

I would use something like this:

\v<(quick|brown|lazy|jumps)>

\v - very magic

< - the beginning of a word

> - the end of a word

(quick|brown|lazy|jumps) - the words to find

Thanks,

Mikhail Velikikh

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 at 14:51, Salman Halim <salmanhalim@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Is there a way to compose a regular expression in Vim that will find all the words I want, irrespective of the order in which they occur? For example:

Some text...

The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dogs.

Some other text...

I want to find 'quick', 'brown', 'lazy' and 'jumps'. I don't know the order in which they occur, so something like 'quick.*brown.*lazy.*jumps' won't work. I'm trying to avoid a complicated/ugly expression that includes all possible orderings like '\%(brown.*lazy\)\|\%(lazy.*brown\)'.

I'm hoping there is a more graceful way to do this already. I'm happy to write a function to convert a sequence of words to an expression, even if it's the 'all combinations' one.

Thank you,

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Salman

I, too, shall something make and glory in the making.

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