Add or remove single quotes around numbers in yaml files with vim

Question

I'm editing some large YAML files with neovim, and need to add (and remove, in some cases) single quotes around some values.

For example -

code: 1234

needs to be changed to

code: '1234'

in other cases,

account_number: '1234'

needs to be changed to

account_number: 1234

I've tried :%s in as many ways I can think of, but can't solve it. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

I believe we already have several duplicates of this question: Vimscript - Surround word under cursor with quotes, optimise surround with quotes and maybe others too — statox, May 21 '21 at 07:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '21 at 18:50

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This does it: :%s/"\([0-9]\+\)"/\1/g

answered May 20 '21 at 18:50

Steve

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\d instead of [0-9] – D. Ben Knoble May 20 '21 at 19:38
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@Steve note that your answer is flagged as low quality because of its length. I would be useful to edit it to add an explanation of your command so that someone who is not familiar with :s and regex can better understand what you are doing. – statox May 21 '21 at 11:34
Welcome to [vi.se]! – filbranden May 22 '21 at 00:04

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