possible to search two form of hex string in one time?

Question

Some text file contains lots of hex strings, a same string presents multiple times in two formats like:

00000000 aa bb cc 25 41 f3 d9 ed 58 5c ed a0 3c 61 60 ce ...%A...X..<a`.

and

aabbcc2541f3d9ed585ceda03c6160ce

When I search the string, I have to search twice, first for aa bb cc, and then search for aabbcc. Is it possible to search once, that would highlight both with-space and none-space strings? And press N to jump through these results just like normal search?

Answer 1

:help / should get you to :help pattern, from which you can learn all about vim’s syntax for patterns. Since they can used in more places than just /, it’s worth an initial read.

In your case, one option is /\vaa ?bb ?cc