Question

I have have several lines from a table that I’m converting from Excel to the Wiki format, and want to add link tags for part of the text on each line, if there is text in that field. I have started the converting job and come to this point:

|10.20.30.9||x|-||
|10.20.30.10||x|s04|Server 4|
|10.20.30.11||x|s05|Server 5|
|10.20.30.12|||||
|10.20.30.13|||||

What I want is to change the fourth column from, e.g., s04 to [[server:s04]]. I do not wish to add the link brackets if the line is empty, or if it contains -. If that - is a big problem, I can remove it.

All my tries on regex to get anything from the line ends in the whole line being replaced.

Answer 1

Let me recommend the following substitution command.

:%s/^|\%([^|]*|\)\{3}\zs[^|-]\+\ze|/[[server:&]]/