Find a value , and insert it at the begining of line

Hi

 

this works. Is there a niftier way? (ie without capturing the context).

 

:%s/\(.*\)\(18\d\d\)\(.*\)/\2\1\2\3/

 

It seems that the nested capture which wd have been a tad shorter, doesn't work.

 

regards - Chris

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