Re: substitution, transform string to list?

On 2020-07-17 11:10, meine wrote:
> The data to transform:
>
> ABBEEL;1872/253;1882/576;1886/1925;1887/603;1887/1813;1894/1444;1898/3449
> ABBEELS;1888/1401;1889/562;1891/2371;1899/3088;1902/732;1903/1509;1904/1317
>
> should become:
>
> ABBEEL;1872/253
> ABBEEL;1882/576
> ABBEEL;1886/1925
> ABBEEL;1887/603
> ABBEEL;1887/1813
> ABBEEL;1894/1444
> ABBEEL;1898/3449
> ABBEELS;1888/1401
> ABBEELS;1889/562
> ABBEELS;1891/2371
> ABBEELS;1899/3088
> ABBEELS;1902/732
> ABBEELS;1903/1509
> ABBEELS;1904/1317

You can do it in two passes, one to prefix each item on its own line:

:%s/\%(^\([^;]*\).*\)\@<=\(;[^;]*\)/\r\1\2/g

and then a second command to delete all the remnant lines (ones that
are just the prefix which don't have a ";" in them):

:v/;/d

-tim



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