--- title: "💭 Bob Belderbos on X: \"Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim h..." description: "!https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055" date: 2023-10-05 published: true tags: - vim - regex - thought template: link ---
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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: > > name,name@example.com,0,171,,2023-09-21 > > With: > > name,name@example.com > > Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim? > > :%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/ !!! note This post is a thought. It's a short note that I make about someone else's content online #thoughts