[ale] VI vs perl RE question

[Jim]

I use the help a lot, unfortunately I haven't been able to decipher the 
complex search patterns.  I was hoping someone had already found the magic.

Thanks,
Jim.
Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Wed February 1 2006 7:17 am, Jim wrote:
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>>I'm trying to use vi to search for something enclosed in quotes,
>>using perl RE I get a hit with $var =~/"(.*?)"/;  But using the same
>>re in vi doesn't work.  Is there an equivalent search in v
>>    
>>
>
> /usr/share/vim/vim63/doc/*.txt
>                      The Vim documentation files.  Use ":help 
>doc-file-list" to get the com?
>                      plete list.
>
>
>if you know ED commands you can search on almost anything in VI.
>the slash command is how you search:
>/word_phrase_expression
>
>use the backslash for special characters
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