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

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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
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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/

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