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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: A vi question
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.174035.3946@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 19 Aug 90 17:40:35 GMT
References: <14420003@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> <3440002@hprnd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <3440002@hprnd.HP.COM> egt@hprnd.HP.COM (Eric Tausheck) writes:
>> > I need to do the following in vi.
>> > ccccoooossss -> cos
>> 
>> :%s/cc*/c/g
>> :%s/oo*/o/g
>> :%s/ss*/s/g
>> ----------
>
>   Wouldn't one of the following be more accurate?
>:%s/cc*oo*ss*/cos/g
>:%s/ccccoooossss/cos/g
>
 I have seen a lot of answres of this type in the last fwe days but it
seems obvious, to me at any rate , that the question reffered to a more 
general solution. ie he wants to know how to edit out the quadrupling
of letters not just the specific case of ccccoooossss. I am not 
experienced enough with vi to supply an answer but so far I haven't seen it.

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