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    <p>Scenario:</p> <ul> <li>I have a text file that has pipe (as in the <code>|</code> character) delimited data.</li> <li>Each field of data in the pipe delimited fields can be of variable length, so counting characters won't work (or using some sort of substring function... if that even exists in Vim).</li> </ul> <p>Is it possible, using Vim / Vi to delete all data from the second pipe to the end of the line for the entire file? There are approx 150,000 lines, so doing this manually would only be appealing to a masochist...</p> <p>e.g.</p> <p>Change the following lines from:</p> <pre><code>1111|random sized text 12345|more random data la la la|1111|abcde 2222|random sized text abcdefghijk|la la la la|2222|defgh 3333|random sized text|more random data|33333|ijklmnop </code></pre> <p>to:</p> <pre><code>1111|random sized text 12345 2222|random sized text abcdefghijk 3333|random sized text </code></pre> <p>I'm sure this can be done somehow... I hope.</p> <p>TIA</p> <p>UPDATE: I should have mentioned that I'm running this on Windows XP, so I don't have access to some of the mentioned *nix commands (CUT is not recognized on Windows).</p>
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    1. COInstall the *nix commands dude. You'll never regret it. I use cygwin on XP, but I think that these days there are more open alternatives.
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    2. COI've considered doing that. I just have to be careful installing not standard stuff on my PC at work. Luckily as a developer they do give us more leeway than a standard user.
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    3. COSee also a similar (more recent) question "[How to delete text after a specified symbol in Vim](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7459677/how-to-delete-text-after-a-specified-symbol-in-vim/7460037#7460037)".
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