Re: Search pattern while excluding some words

Le vendredi 06 mars 2015 à 08:30, John Cordes a écrit:
> First a small bit of background. I have created a little
> bash script which runs pdftotext on a PDF file (containing
> obituaries, with surnames in upper-case), then invokes vim
> commands to massage the resulting text file, basically to
> break the file into paragraphs.
>
> I then open the resulting text file in
> vim and search for surnames which may have remained
> embedded within a paragraph; I use
>
> /[A-Z]\{4,\}
>
> for this (ignoring the occasional 3 letter surname).
>
> Here's my question: while running this search on 4 or
> more uppercase characters, I would like to be able to skip
> past (ignore) certain commonly occurring 'words' such as
> RCMP, QEII, SPCA and such. I want to jump immediately to
> the next occurring surname.

You can try something like this (add other acronyms as you will):

/\<\(RCMP\|QEII\|SPCA\)\@![A-Z]\{4,\}

It means match any uppercase word of at least four letters, so long as
RCMP, etc., doesn't match at the same position (which is the beginning
of a word, thanks to \<).

Best,
Paul

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