Can I substitute multiple items in a single regular expression in VIM or Perl?

Question

Let\'s say I have string \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" can I change this to \"The slow brown fox jumps over the energetic dog\" with one regular expression

Answer 1

You can concatenate vim substitutions:

The quick brown fox ran quickly next to the lazy brook.

:s/quick/slow/|s/lazy/energetic/

The slow brown fox ran quickly next to the energetic brook.

The advantage here is that you have to type your substitutions just once

Rgds