Vim: How can I search and replace on just part of each line?
regex, vi, vim
Solution
Assuming there will never be commas in your original data, you should be able to use the following:
:%s/.*/\L\0\E,"\0"/ | %s/ \([^,]*,\)\@=/_/g
This just does another replacement after your current one to replace all of the spaces that come before a comma (using a positive lookahead).
Problem
I've got a list of phrases with spaces: ``` Part One Part Two Parts Three And Four ``` I'd like to use Vim to process the list to produce this: ``` part_one,"Part One" part_two,"Part Two" parts_three_and_four,"Parts Three And Four" ``` I can get use this regex: ``` :%s/.*/\L\0\E,"\0"/ ``` to get me to this, which is really close: ``` part one,"Part One" part two,"Part Two" parts three and four,"Parts Three And Four" ``` Is there any way to replace all spaces before the comma on each with underscores? Either as a modification of the above regex or as a second command?