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Vim \zs and \ze #26
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This might be worth adding, though I don't know which other dialects have that feature. They also overlap somewhat with the look-around operators. |
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I apologize in advance; I am a very infrequent vim user, so some of this may need to be double-checked.
\zs
sets the start of a match.\ze
sets the end of a match.Vim's
\zs
appears to work like PCRE's\K
(which discards matched text up to that point):s/foo\Kfoo/bar/g
:%s/foo\zsfoo/bar/g
Text:
foofoofoofoo
Result:
foobarfoobar
On the other hand, vim's
\ze
appears to work more like a lookahead:s/foo(?=foo)/bar/g
:%s/foo\zefoo/bar/g
:%s/foo\(foo\)\@=/bar/g
Text:
foofoofoofoo
Result:
barbarbarfoo
I thought it might be useful to include the
\K
similarities in your Vim cheatsheet.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: