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Close, but no cigar:)
That worked for everything except where the AVG_**** was repeated in the third column. Eg:
RSUSG_DY;AVG_AVGDHT;AVG_AVGDHT;#;A
became:
RSUSG_DY;AVG_AVGDHT;AVG_AVGDHT;Average...

Done it! The part after AVG_ is always * characters or less, so this works:

:%s/AVG_\([A-Z0-9]\{1,8\};\)/AVG_\1Average /

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear in my original posting. The snippet of the file was tiny and the first letter isn't always 'u'. Also, I only want to add in the word average when the previous word...

I would personally never tar anything up with an 'absolute' file name as you'll never know whether you'll have permission to untar it/whether you'll overwrite someone's much needed directory.

I...

Hi all,

I have a very large; delimited file. In vi I would like to replace:
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT1;uesPerActiveLinkSetSize_1;#;A
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT2;uesPerActiveLinkSetSize_2;#;A...