We, at TheWebMiner we have often the need of processing large text files, and when i say large i mean files of few hundreds of Megabytes or bigger. Out of all the text processing tools that we’ve tested so far we concluded that the best was Vim or gVim (the windows version of this famous editor).

Regulated Expressions

Another useful tool in file processing are regulated expressions, or, more simple RegEx. These expressions help us find, or find and replace pieces of text of a certain format, all being done automatically. By combining the two definitions we discover a new problem.

How do we use Regulated Expressions in Vim?

Vim has its own format for RegEx so we cannot use standard regulated expressions Of Vim but we have created and put to your disposal a convertor for this purpose. You can find the converter on our site (www.thewebminer.com/regex-to-vim) , and we hope that this will come to your help.