Re: S&R with search input from a file

Hi Tim,

I get as far as the following
:sp input.txt    
:%s/$/\\|/        
:%j!             


:s/..$     

doesn't work at my windows system

I use:      

execute "normal! \<end>xx"

Then it fails on
0y$              

I get the error message E488: Trailing characters

I also noticed that the <C-R> mapping in the last substitute command is already used in another plugin.

Is there a workaround for?

Rgds,

Jeri

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:

On 2014-04-18 20:07, Jeri Raye wrote:
> FileNAME: INPUT.TXT
> Containing:
> +----------+
> james
> quebec
> canada
> +----------+
>
>
> :%s/<INPUT.TXT>/replace found word with same word but first letter
> in uppercase./g
>
>
> Example:
> james was in quebec.
> The city quebec is in canada.
>
> Becomes:
> James was in Quebec.
> The city Quebec is in Canada.

You can transform your input file into a single command:

vi data.txt
:sp input.txt      " open your word-list in a new window
:%s/$/\\|/         " start transforming it into a regexp
:%j!               " join each line together
:s/..$             " delete the "\|" from the end of the line
0y$                " yank the newly-formed regexp
:wincmd w          " flip back to the file you want to change
:%s/\c\<\(<c-r>0\)\>/\u&/g
                   " substitute across the entire file (":%s/")
                   " ignoring case ("\c")
                   " a word must start here to match ("\<")
                   " start the list of alternatives ("\(")
                   " use control+R followed by zero
                   "    to include the word-list joined by \|
                   "    that we yanked previously
                   " close the list of alternatives ("\)")
                   " ensure that the word ends here ("\>")
                   " and replace it with ("/")
                   " the next letter uppercased ("\u")
                   " the text we captured ("&")
                   " and do all replacements on the line ("/g")

This assumes that your input list is all just whole words, no funky
regexp metachars (periods, backslashes, asterisks, or
open-square-brackets come to mind).

-tim

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