title: Regex search and replace in VI
body: <p>I have a document with lots of &lt;swf...>.....&lt;/swf> in it. I would like to remove all these. Using vi when i type</p>
  
  <pre><code>:%s/\&lt;swf[^\/swf&gt;]+\/swf\&gt;//g
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was hoping this would work, but it doesn't match anything.</p>