Hi everyone,
I have a point of interest question about a substitution I was trying to
make. At some points in my code I had a variable that was a pointer that
was denoted (in C) by:
*iterNum
I wanted to replace instances of exactly this string globally between my
present position and line 791, with:
j
therefore I tried the command below:
:.,791s/\<\*iterNum\>/j/g
and got the following error, even though the string
*iterNum
appeared a number of times within this range:
E486: Pattern not found: \<\*iterNum\>
I was fairly certain that the * had to be escaped, but just in case I
tried the below:
:.,791s/\<*iterNum\>/j/g
and not surprisingly got an two errors, as follows:
E56: * operand could be empty
E476: Invalid command
So, in the end I gave up with the identical match and instead just used
the following and checked it afterwards, I could of course have used c
on the end as well to prompt me each time:
:.,791s/\*iterNum/j/g
My question (sorry this is so long-winded) is why the first substition
did not work.
Many thanks,
Rob.
