[Wylug-discuss] Vi question

[Paul Branston]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:19:27AM +0100, ALLEN, David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a question for all you Vi experts; How do you do a global find and
> replace?
>
> Ta.
>
> David
>
>
>
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:%s/pattern/replacement/g

% for do this on every line ( swap % for 1,10 to do the replacement on lines
   1 - 10 inclusive)
g replace the pattern more than once on each line that matches

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