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Tip 1319 Printable Monobook Previous Next

created September 4, 2006 · complexity basic · author Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva · version 6.0

Suppose you have a table of numbers like:

1 12 3 13 11 55 67
1 12 3 13 11 55 67
1 12 3 13 11 55 67
1 12 3 13 11 55 67
1 12 3 13 11 55 67

To generate html tags of form 1 use command:

:%s/\(\s\+\)\(\d\+\)/<td>\2<\/td>/g

The result:

<td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>11</td><td>55</td><td>67</td>
<td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>11</td><td>55</td><td>67</td>
<td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>11</td><td>55</td><td>67</td>
<td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>11</td><td>55</td><td>67</td>
<td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>11</td><td>55</td><td>67</td>

To generate words like:

<td>uma</td><td>porção</td><td>de</td><td>palavras</td><td>para</td><td>testes</td><td>deve</td>
<td>ser</td><td>digitada</td><td>após</td><td>isto</td><td>coloque</td><td>espaço</td><td>no</td>
<td>inicio</td><td>de</td><td>cada</td><td>linha</td>

use commands:

:%s/^/ /g
:%s/\(\s\+\)\(\S\+\)/<td>\2<\/td>/g

Comments[]

:%s,\(\d\+\),<td>\1</td>,g