Vim Regular Expression Bulk Modify text __ Regular expressions

VIM Regular Expression bulk Modify text Demand

TXT text of country area code and area, turn into plist file example used on iOS

Test.txt

+93:afghanistan
+355:albania

Amend it to

<dict>
    <key>country</key>
    <string>Afghanistan</string>
    <key> code</key>
    <string>+93</string>
</dict>
<dict>
    <key> country</key>
    <string>Albania</string>
    <key>code</key>
    <string >+355</string>
</dict>

Vim command

:%s/\ (+[0-9]\+\): \ (. *\)/<dict>\r\t<key>\2<\/key>\r\t<string>\1<\/string>\r<\/ Dict>/g

Meaning

%s: means to search for replacements in all rows

/from/to/: 3 slashes with regular expressions replaced from from from

G: Do not ask, whole line replace reference

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