(g)vim replace regex

Question

I'm looking for a regex that will change sth. like this:

print "testcode $testvar \n";

in

printnlog("testcode $testvar \n");

I tried %s/print\s*(.\{-});/printnlog(\1);/g but gvim says

print\s*(.\{-});

doesn't match.

Where is my fault? Is it ok to use '*' after '\s' because later '{-};' will stop the greed?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In vim you have to prepend (, ) and | with backslash, so try

:%s/print\s*\(.\{-}\);/printnlog(\1);/g