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denarced
November 13th, 2010, 10:03 AM
I was thinking the other day when I typed the following in vim:


:%s/^[ ]\+//

Can I get a count of those found spaces ?
Can I then use that count when replacing ?
Or is this something that regular expressions can't handle and I have use the workarounds available ?

Sharing of knowledge is appreciated :)

denarced
December 6th, 2010, 08:16 PM
Nobody know this ?