Hi,
I am trying to write a list of strings to a file, I have used
writefile() successfully in the past, but this time I'm having a
problem derived from the fact that some of the items contain new line
characters.
The docs for writefile say:
> All NL characters are replaced with a NUL character.
And this seems to be the cause of my problem, since the file ends up
having ^@ where new lines should start. I don't know if the next
sentence in the docs is hinting something similar, I don't really
understand what it means:
> Inserting CR characters needs to be done before passing {list}
> to writefile().
I originally thought it meant I had to replace NL with CR before
calling writefile, but don't know exactly what the difference is
between those two.
For an example of what I am seeing, try this
:call writefile([system('ls -1 /tmp')], '/tmp/myfile.txt') and then :e
/tmp/myfile.txt
It is different than this (insert mode on an empty buffer):
<C-R>=system('ls -1 /tmp')
So my question is, is there a way to keep those new line characters in
the output file?
Thanks and regards,
--
Jacobo de Vera
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
