Re: capture result of a global search

On 04/29/2011 03:59 PM, cyboman wrote:
> does anybody know if there is a way to capture the result of a global
> search in vim.
>
> for example in perl i can do the following
> string =~ /(pattern1)someword/i
> and $1 will contain patter1.
>
> is something like this possible in vim scripting?

You don't mention explicitly where you want it. You can use

:redir

to capture to various locations (variables, files, registers).
You can read more at

:help :redir

Alternatively, you can append the resulting matches:

:let s ='' |g/pattern/let s += getline('.')

-tim

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