Question

I’m working on refactoring a bunch of PHP code for an instructor. The first thing I’ve decided to do is to update all the SQL files to be written in Drupal SQL coding conventions, i.e., to have all-uppercase keywords. I’ve written a few regular expressions:

:%s/create table/CREATE TABLE/gi
:%s/create database/CREATE DATABASE/gi
:%s/primary key/PRIMARY KEY/gi
:%s/auto_increment/AUTO_INCREMENT/gi
:%s/not null/NOT NULL/gi

Okay, that’s a start. Now I just open every SQL file in Vim, run all five regular expressions, and save. This feels like five times the work it should be. Can they be compounded in to one obnoxiously long but easily copy-pastable regex?

Answer 1

why do you have to do it in vim? how about sed/awk?

e.g. with sed

sed -e 's/create table/\U&/g' -e's/not null/\U&/g' -e 's/.../\U&/' *.sql

btw, in vi you may do

:%s/create table/\U&/g 

to change case, well save some typing.

update

if you really want a long command to execute in vi, maybe you could try:

:%s/create table\|create database\|foo\|bar\|blah/\U&/g