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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers vi + regexp + substitute Post 59134 by zazzybob on Friday 10th of December 2004 09:00:34 AM
Old 12-10-2004
I'm not too sure that I follow - but you can supress the interpretation of metacharacters by backslash escaping them...

e.g.
Code:
:%s/^.*my_patter_has_special_chars\*\/\$\^_in_it.*$//

As you can see, the .* at the beginning and end of line are still treated as metacharacters (as are the anchors).

Cheers
ZB
 

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