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Remove semicolons after expressions

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Start file
var foo;

var bar = myCoolStuff();

callRemote();

foo = callTheWorld();
End file
var foo

var bar = myCoolStuff()

callRemote()

foo = callTheWorld()

View Diff

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< var foo;
---
> var foo
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< var bar = myCoolStuff();
---
> var bar = myCoolStuff()
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< callRemote();
---
> callRemote()
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< foo = callTheWorld();
---
> foo = callTheWorld()

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#97 Federico Bond / @federicobond - Score: 8 - 09/22/12 @ 16:53 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#98 Sven Koesling / @McSvenster - Score: 8 - 09/24/12 @ 00:24 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#99 Javier Cervantes / @solojavier - Score: 8 - 10/08/12 @ 15:04 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#100 Édouard M'tou / @DouardM - Score: 8 - 10/09/12 @ 11:45 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#101 Underhill Labs / @underhilllabs - Score: 8 - 11/02/12 @ 20:41 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#102 Saxon Unrue / @joeunrue - Score: 8 - 11/09/12 @ 05:24 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#103 Kenneth Waters / @gen_witt - Score: 8 - 11/13/12 @ 13:08 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#104 Michael / @patheticpat - Score: 8 - 12/17/12 @ 06:03 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#105 Zarak / @z0k - Score: 8 - 12/19/12 @ 07:22 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#106 Pedro Franceschi / @pedroh96 - Score: 8 - 02/05/13 @ 18:40 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#107 Addisu Taddese / @azeey - Score: 8 - 03/02/13 @ 11:10 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#108 Tyler Bindon / @tylerbindon - Score: 8 - 04/03/13 @ 12:46 
7:s/;<CR>ZZ

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#109 Aaron Josephs / @aaronjosephs1 - Score: 8 - 05/01/13 @ 19:57 
:%s/;<CR>ZZ

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#110 Alec Chen / @alec929 - Score: 9 - 11/03/12 @ 07:12 
:%s/;/<CR>ZZ

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#111 James Cash / @jamesnvc - Score: 10 - 06/02/12 @ 09:52 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#112 Drew Benedetti / @cnorsl - Score: 10 - 07/17/12 @ 12:28 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#113 Christopher Brew / @Seph1rothVII - Score: 10 - 07/24/12 @ 14:16 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#114 it's not me / @dpree - Score: 10 - 08/10/12 @ 08:47 
:g/;/s/<CR>ZZ

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#115 Tyler Breisacher / @tbreisacher - Score: 10 - 08/25/12 @ 00:42 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#116 Alex Hammel / @AlexJHammel - Score: 10 - 12/23/12 @ 10:22 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#117 Asmund Liseth / @Asmund_L - Score: 10 - 01/12/13 @ 09:34 
:%s/;//<CR>ZZ

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#118 Raphaël De Giusti / @raphdg - Score: 11 - 06/02/12 @ 11:42 
$*xnxnxnxZZ

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#119 lauri lehmijoki / @laurilehmijoki - Score: 12 - 06/02/12 @ 07:58 
qa$xjjq3@aZZ

@laurilehmijoki: There is a drawback to this solution: it forces me to take into account the amount of semicolons I want to remove.

@wondible: There's always the recursive macro qa...@aq@a Though it might get a little crazy if the register isn't empty beforehand.

2 comments

#120 Rohin Patel / @ropatel - Score: 14 - 11/01/12 @ 17:49 
:%s/;//g<CR>:wq!<CR>

0 comments

#121 Noel Alejandro / @noelrock333 - Score: 15 - 06/22/12 @ 17:03 
:%s/;//<CR>:w<CR><Esc>:q<CR>

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Created by: @laurilehmijoki

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