Re: systematic replacement of text

* Natércia Fernandes [2014.04.09 07:02]:
> In a file with many occurrences of something like this:
>
> \xxx{a variable number of words that I want to delete}{a variable (diferent)
> number of words that I want to keep}

[...]

> Don't know if this info is needed or not: both argument 1 and/or argument 2
> can contain the symbols \ {}.

Not only is it needed, it changes everything.

I was going to suggest:

:%s/\\xxx{\_[^}]*}{\(\_[^}]*\)}/\1/g

But that won't work if the arguments can contain
'}'. That simple fact makes the problem a lot
harder.

--
JR

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