On 2009-04-16, Rogers, Brian A. wrote:
> I'm trying to write a quick s+r to replace single line "multi-line
> style" comments with single-line style comments.
> For some reason, it won't match when I use paren's to store match
> fragments.
> Below is what I'm using
>
> :%s#/\*(.*)\*/#//\1#g
>
> This winds up matching nothing in my file, where if I do a search with
> the same pattern without the paren's everything's great.
You need to escape the parentheses:
:%s#/\*\(.*\)\*/#//\1#g
See
:help /\(
Regards,
Gary
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