[TriLUG] vi question

[Greg Brown]

thanks to everyone, yeah, that did it!

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ron Young <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> This works from the command line:
> $ cat test
>
> ,101.5000,WRAL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Raleigh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BF,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Rock
> $
> $ sed '1,$s/,,*/,/g' test
> ,101.5000,WRAL,Raleigh,BF,Rock
> $
> $
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to match multiple commas in a line in vi so I can globally
> > change
> > them to a single comma (yup, I'm building a .csv file).
> >
> > Here's an example line::
> >
> >
> >
> ,101.5000,WRAL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Raleigh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BF,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Rock
> >
> > The leading comma is ok, I really don't care about that, it's easy enough
> > to
> > strip out.
> >
> > :1,$s/\,+/\,/g  is NOT working.  Grr.  Any hints?  I know I'm overlooking
> > something extraordinarily simple here....
> >
> > Greg
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