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Scenario:
| character) delimited data.Is it possible, using Vim to delete all data from the second pipe to the end of the line for the entire file? There are approx 150,000 lines, so doing this manually would only be appealing to a masochist...
For example, change the following lines from:
1111|random sized text 12345|more random data la la la|1111|abcde
2222|random sized text abcdefghijk|la la la la|2222|defgh
3333|random sized text|more random data|33333|ijklmnop
to:
1111|random sized text 12345
2222|random sized text abcdefghijk
3333|random sized text
I'm sure this can be done somehow... I hope.
UPDATE: I should have mentioned that I'm running this on Windows XP, so I don't have access to some of the mentioned *nix commands (cut is not recognized on Windows).
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Using the Shift + V Keys. We can select and delete specific texts using the Shift + V keys and then using the dd command.
To delete a word, position the cursor at the beginning of the word and type dw . The word and the space it occupied are removed. To delete part of a word, position the cursor on the word to the right of the part to be saved. Type dw to delete the rest of the word.
Place the text cursor at the beginning of the line of text. On your keyboard, press and hold the left or right Shift key and then press the End key to highlight the entire line. Press the Delete key to delete the line of text.
:%s/^\v([^|]+\|[^|]+)\|.*$/\1/
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