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I have a log file with the string "ERROR" on some lines. I want to delete every line that doesn't have ERROR so that I can see just what needs fixing. I was going to do something like the following in vim:
%s/!(ERROR)//
to replace non-error lines with an empty string.
I do not believe that standard regexes can do this, but maybe I'm wrong...
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Example: The regex "aa\n" tries to match two consecutive "a"s at the end of a line, inclusive the newline character itself. Example: "a\+" matches "a+" and not a series of one or "a"s. ^ the caret is the anchor for the start of the string, or the negation symbol.
To match any character except a list of excluded characters, put the excluded charaters between [^ and ] . The caret ^ must immediately follow the [ or else it stands for just itself. The character '. ' (period) is a metacharacter (it sometimes has a special meaning).
Similarly, the negation variant of the character class is defined as "[^ ]" (with ^ within the square braces), it matches a single character which is not in the specified or set of possible characters. For example the regular expression [^abc] matches a single character except a or, b or, c.
Use the test() method to check if a regular expression matches an entire string, e.g. /^hello$/. test(str) . The caret ^ and dollar sign $ match the beginning and end of the string. The test method returns true if the regex matches the entire string, and false otherwise.
Use the :g! command to delete every line that doesn't match.
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