Re: Substitute pattern over multiple lines

Why not use

:%s/\n3 CONC //

to concatenate all the continuations and then use

:%s/\(2 NOTE \)\(.*\)/\1<div> class="xxx">\2<\/div>/

to turn all the NOTE lines into <div> blocks? Or am I misunderstanding
something about the transformation you need?

- George

On 12/23/20 6:08 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2020-12-23 17:48, John Cordes wrote:
>> I'm seeking help with editing a GEDCOM (genealogy) file. For
>> this I'm using Vim 8.2 in Windows. Here is a segment of text from
>> the file (the language doesn't make sense since I've deleted
>> some internal lines in the NOTEs which aren't relevant to the
>> question):
>>
>> =======================
>> 1 EVEN
>> 2 TYPE tngnote
>> 2 NOTE I have included the children William, Charles, Alice, and
>> with his parents in 1881, and with his widowed mother in 1
>> 3 CONC 891 (e.g. see my online transcription of the 1891 Smiths
>> with James Moser, son of Henry Moser and Mary Henneberry, and his
>> wife Margaret Woodin; however
>> 3 CONC , I have not yet taken this step.
>> 1 BIRT
>> =======================
>>
>> The 2 lines beginning with ^3 CONC are Continuation
>> (CONC=Concatenation) lines.
>>
>> I want to surround the text of the NOTE with a 'div' tag, so that
>> the final result should look like this:
>>
>> =======================
>> 1 EVEN
>> 2 TYPE tngnote
>> 2 NOTE <div class="xxx">I have included the children William,
>> Charles, Alice, and with his parents in 1881, and with his widowed
>> mother in 1891 (e.g. see my online transcription of the 1891
>> Smiths with James Moser, son of Henry Moser and Mary Henneberry,
>> and his wife Margaret Woodin; however, I have not yet taken this
>> step.</div>
>> 1 BIRT
>> =======================
>
> I'd start with this ugly monstrosity:
>
> :%s/^2 \u\{3,} \zs\(.*\n\(\%(\D\|3 CONC \).*\n\)\+\)/\='<div
> class="xxx">'.substitute(substitute(submatch(1), '\n3 CONC ', '',
> 'g'), '\n', '', 'g')."<\/div>\n"
>
> (all one line in case it breaks in the mail)
>
> If you only want it to do "2 NOTE" lines, you can change that initial
>
> 2 \u\{3,} \zs
>
> (which does any item that has continuations) to
>
> 2 NOTE \zs
>
> This does join *all* the lines and doesn't re-wrap them, so you'd
> then want a second pass to do the wrapping
>
> :set tw=70
> :g/<div [^>]*>.*<\/div>$/norm gqq
>
> Hope this gives you some ideas to work with.
>
> -tim
>
>
>

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