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I have a program that lists hostnames and IPs. Some hostnames have multiple IPs assigned to them. When I download the IP column .csv, it lists as such: 

192.168.xx.xx
"192.168.xx.xx, 192.168.xx.xx"
192.168.xx.xx

I am putting the contents of this .csv file into a VI file. What I would like to do is figure out how to script it so that the lines with 2 IPs (with the " " and ,) move one of the IPs to a new line and remove all of the " " and , so that I can easily run this through a Powershell script to ping each and get their up/down status.

Goal would be to get this file: 

192.xx.xx
192.xx.xx
192.xx.xx
192.xx.xx

Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

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    Are those meant to be on separate lines? – Antony Jun 23 '16 at 20:07
  • What did you try? – romainl Jun 24 '16 at 5:16
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You can use the :substitute command for this:

:%s/"//g | %s/, /\r/g

First replace all quotation marks with nothing (I assume there will be no escaped "s since these are just IP addresses). Then (| is the command separator) replace all ', ' with linebreaks (\r).

References:

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    After @TommyA's edit I would recommend changing substitution to :%s/"\(.*\),\(.*\)"/\1\r\2/g – Tumbler41 Jun 23 '16 at 20:31
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    @Tumbler41 That's assuming that there's only two IPs in each field. If this was a common thing that needs to be done I would make a command with: %s/^"\(.*\)"/\=substitute(submatch(1), ',\s*', "\r", 'g')/g to be on the safe side. – Tommy A Jun 23 '16 at 20:41
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    Those are both more complicated ways of achieving the same result. – Antony Jun 23 '16 at 21:29
  • Ok, sorry. I read your expression wrong. Yeah, yours is fine. – Tumbler41 Jun 23 '16 at 21:38
  • Well, if you need performance, one command is probably faster. I guess I just prefer to keep things simple if possible. – Antony Jun 23 '16 at 21:45
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You can use macros to do the same thing.

For removing ", do this.

qaqqa/"<CR>xn@aq

For removing , and replacing it with a new line,

qsqqs/,<CR>i<CR>xx@sq

Now, explanation:

qa - start recording a  macro and stores in register `a`
q - stops the macro (empties register content.
/" - find double quotes
<CR> - enter. Don't type <CR> but press enter instead of this.
x - delete the current character
n - find next occurrence
@a - replay the macro recursively
q stop the macro.

You can execute the macros by pressing @a and @s in normal mode.

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