Ok, I've changed to:
:g/[-0-9]\{13,17\}/t.|s/^[0-9]\+//g|w! >> my.txt | dI still not just get the 13 to 17 digits strings. You say it will copy all the lines that starts with digits. I don't want the whole line just the digit string, not what follows with exception if it's another 13 to 17 digits string. Lars Iselid On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Marcin Szamotulski <[email protected]>wrote: > On 08:10 Thu 01 Sep , Lars Iselid wrote: > > Thanks for help! > > > > I want to write the digits and actually my full regex in vim is: > > /[-0-9]\{13,17\} > > > > I want numbers with 13 to 17 digits even if they have hyphens between the > > digits. Should then be something like: > > > > :g/[-0-9]\{13,17\}/t.|s/[^0-9]\+//g|w! >> my.txt | d > You can try this: > :g/[-0-9]\{13,17\}/t.|s/^[0-9]\+//g|w! >> my.txt | d > (it will copy all the lines which starts with more than one digit). > I think you had a small typo in your pattern. The meaning of ^ inside [] is > to > not match any of the following characters, that's why your pattern matched > the > complement of what you expect. > > Best, > Marcin > > > > I tried this but I get the whole text not just numerical digits (with > > hyphens) in a new file. > > > > Lars > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On 08/31/11 07:23, Lars Iselid wrote: > > > > > >> If you have a search statement something like this: > > >> > > >> /[0-9] > > >> > > >> And want to write :w the matching content to a file. How to do? I've > > >> seen examples similar to this: > > >> > > >> /[0-9] . w>> my.txt > > >> > > > > > > Depends on whether you want to write just the match, or the entire > line. > > > If you want the entire line containing the match(es), it's pretty > easy: > > > > > > g/[0-9]/w>> my.txt > > > > > > If you just want to write those digits to the file, it's more complex. > > > Something like: > > > > > > g/[0-9]/t.|s/[^0-9]\+//g|w! >> my.txt | d > > > > > > which copies each matching line to the line below, deletes all the > > > non-digits, writes/appends the temp-line to the file, and then deletes > the > > > temp-line. > > > > > > -tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
