Tab separated fields

[c.wil...@btinternet.com]

Hi

are there commands to work in the nth tab separated field (like awk)? As I understand it block visual doesn't do this.

regards - Chris

[Salman Halim]

There is a really useful plugin you can download off http://vim8.org called csv.vim. I believe you can change the separator from comma to tab, though I haven't tried it with anything but commas.

Even if you can't change the separator, you could always do a global substitution to replace all tabs with commas, do your work and then do another substitution to replace all commas with tabs. If you're concerned about actual commas that may be in your text, you could first do a substitution to replace them with the word COMMA so they are retained. 

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[Paul]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 11:46:52AM -0500, Salman Halim wrote:
>There is a really useful plugin you can download off http://vim8.org called
>csv.vim. I believe you can change the separator from comma to tab, though I
>haven't tried it with anything but commas.

I'm not sure what was meant by "work within the nth tab separated field", but the plugin I believe you're referring to is https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim

[c.wil...@btinternet.com]

Hi Salman and Paul

thanks. That looks as if it is what I want.

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[Gabriele F]

On 06/12/2020 19.07, 'Paul' via vim_use wrote:
> I'm not sure what was meant by "work within the nth tab separated field",

I believe he means by using nth-tab fields as motions or text objects.