Bob Belderbos on X: "Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim h...
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Date: October 5, 2023

Image: Bob Belderbos (@bbelderbos) on X — Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim helped me out today ... 💪 📈 <p>Ever felt like you needed a quick string replacement without diving into a script? Here's a Vim trick I just used …</p> <p>I wanted to replace all occurrences of:</p> <p>name,name@example.com,0,171,,2023-09-21</p> <p>With:" loading=“lazy”> </div> <div class= <https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1365563799571431428/wj7Hu5-6_200x200.jpg> Bob Belderbos (@bbelderbos) on X Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim helped me out today … 💪 📈 Ever felt like you needed a quick string replacement without diving into a script? Here's a Vim trick I just used … I w… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com

I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.

│ I wanted to replace all occurrences of:
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│ name,name@example.com,0,171,,2023-09-21
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│ With:
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│ name,name@example.com
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│ Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim?
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│ :%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/