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  @waylonwalker

  2023

  Bob Belderbos on X: "Forget Python for a sec, ...

  https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055

  I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.

  I wanted to replace all occurrences of:

  name,name@example.com,0,171,,2023-09-21

  With:

  name,name@example.com

  Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim?

  :%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/

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