Hi,
I'm no regex guru, but this seems to work. You might need to fine
tune a bit (and the first but assumes you have pre-selected the text
to be re-worked using the vim visual selection
:'<,'>s/\(\%(<div[^>]\+><[^>]\+>\_s\)\{2\}<div[^>]\+>\)\([^<]*\)\(<\/div>\)/\1
TEST \3/
michael
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:39:15 +0100, Rory Winston <rwinston at eircom.net> wrote:
> Regex gurus,
>> I'm trying to do a simple substitute in Vim. I hav a HTML page with hundreds
> of lines like:
>> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
>> What I would like to be able to do is replace every n'th element with
> something else. So if n = 3, then the result is:
>> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo">TEST</div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo"></div>
> <div class="foo">TEST</div>
>> Does anybody know how I might achieve this?
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