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VIM search and replace special characters

vim is a wonderful text editor. Wait. What? emacs? who uses that anyhow… 😉 I recently needed to do a quick search and replace on ALL punctuation within a file and decided to use vim in combination with regex to complete the task and post a quick how-to here. First, Read more…

By Torry Crass, 5 years5 years ago

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Regex and the String Between the Colons

After working on this for a bit I wanted to make sure I posted this reminder for myself and others. Regex is a very powerful tool but the syntax is almost something of an art. I needed to identify strings of numbers between two colons. The following regex should look Read more…

By Torry Crass, 7 years ago