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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > :e Vim\ Megathread.txt | wq

foobardog: Apr 19, 2007; There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend

I gathered they meant that only the parts that match would end up in the file. So given $cat\|dog$ as the regex
and

code:

I have a cat and a dog.
I have a rat.
I have a cat.
I have a dog, and I hate it!

You'd get

code:

catdog
cat
dog

So definitely :v/regex/d would work to start and I was able to mostly get it with :s/.\{-}$regex$/\1/g, (i.e., using a non-greedy search and capturing groups) but that left the trailing parts alone:

code:

 
catdog.
cat.
dog, and I hate it!

I gave up and hoped other people would have an idea how to get it. I guess you could make another regex to get everything afterwards, but I started looking at the negative look ahead and decided it wasn't worth it.

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