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12-10-2004

Lomic

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vi + regexp + substitute

Another enigma (for me)

Using VI I edit some files in which I want to erase many lines I don't need anymore

usually I do something like that:

Code:

:%s/line_to_suppress//g

and it is doing fine

but in this case, the pattern to erase contains some special characters

so I do it like that:

Code:

:%s#line_to_suppress_with_special_characters##g

but, the only problem left is that I can't predict what will be the beginning of the line so I wish I could do something like that:

Code:

:%s/*line_to_suppress//g

but of course if I protect the pattern with # to prevent special characters to annoy me... the * don't work anymore

the best way would be to suppress each line containing my pattern, but I don't know how to do that

I'm sure it's pretty easy for many among you, so if one have a bit of time, it would help me a lot

Thanx