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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 587e0a9d5944680006000007

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp!

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Start file

SarCastic

End file

[Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc]

View Diff

1c1
< SarCastic
---
> [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc]

Solutions

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:s/./[\u\0\l\0]/g<CR>ZZ

:s/./[\u\0\l\0]/g<CR>ZZ

Created by: @kmarc Tweet

39 active golfers, 67 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Smylers / @Smylers2

01/17/2017 at 12:20PM

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#2 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

01/17/2017 at 12:30PM

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#3 - Sebastian Korten / @FlashKorten

01/17/2017 at 12:50PM

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#4 - Saki Gw / @Sakigw

01/17/2017 at 01:05PM

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#5 - Anoop Kumar / @anooplive

01/17/2017 at 01:14PM

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#6 - Stanislav / @prstad

01/17/2017 at 03:06PM

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#7 - John Braxler / @braxler

01/17/2017 at 03:49PM

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#8 - Fernando Dias / @fdiasdev

01/17/2017 at 05:22PM

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#9 - Valacar / @valacar

01/18/2017 at 04:26AM

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#10 - Abc Def / @phweiss1

01/18/2017 at 09:07AM

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#11 - sijinyuan / @sijinyuan

01/22/2017 at 02:20AM

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#12 - Benedikt Ames / @wisp3rwind

01/29/2017 at 06:57PM

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#13 - Alexandre Jasmin / @ajasmin

02/19/2017 at 06:42PM

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#14 - Zhihong Liu / @pieapple03

03/03/2017 at 03:38PM

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#15 - Roberto Carraretto / @robcarraretto

03/15/2017 at 01:18AM

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#16 - Evgeny`s Kindle / @EvgenyKindle

03/19/2017 at 09:42AM

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#17 - martin tourneboeuf / @martintournebo1

06/01/2017 at 06:22PM

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#18 - Dmitry Teslenko / @krab_mozga

06/27/2017 at 07:56AM

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#19 - Matti Sairanen / @MattiSairanen

08/03/2017 at 01:46PM

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#20 - Gurukandhamoorthi / @Gurukandhamoor1

08/11/2017 at 03:34PM

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#21 - Bradley M. Small / @BradleySmall

11/23/2017 at 02:52AM

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#22 - Turkey Man / @lvturkeyman

12/02/2017 at 03:51AM

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#23 - Bitt Faulk / @bittfaulk

03/09/2020 at 04:53PM

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#24 - Jon Krause / @jkrause314

12/21/2020 at 05:41PM

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07/16/2021 at 11:39AM

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#26 - Alex / @AlexanderHeatl2

07/07/2022 at 06:36PM

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#27 - Janzen / @__Coos

10/04/2022 at 11:15AM

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#28 - キムラ・OPEL・ユウジ / @kimurayuuji79

11/07/2022 at 12:19AM

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#29 - ._. / @Katharsic

11/21/2022 at 02:35PM

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#30 - Olivier Bégassat / @zk_evm

06/12/2023 at 11:55PM