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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Non-greedy replacing in vim Post 302675995 by awayand on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 01:42:35 AM
Old 07-24-2012
Non-greedy replacing in vim

I have the following lines:

Code:
{color:#000000}blabla{color}
{color:#000000}moreblabla{color}
{color:#000000}even more blabla{color}

I tried the following line in vim to get rid of all the {} tags:
Code:
:%s/{.*\{-}}//g

But vim complains: "invalid command"

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: this worked:
Code:
:%s/{.\{-}}//g


Last edited by awayand; 07-24-2012 at 02:57 AM.. Reason: solved
 

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