On Wednesday, 23 October, 2013 at 10:51:23 BST, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2013-10-23 10:40, Paul wrote:
Sometimes I will want to do a simple search and replace on a string
that contains characters that I have to escape, eg. for
'$foo->{bar}[0]', I would have to use '\$foo->{bar}\[0\]'. I try
not to use the various magic types, because it's difficult to
remember them, and it's recommended to not change the default magic
setting. Is there a way I can do 's/$foo->{bar}[0]/foobar/' and
have it not treat any characters as special, ie. treat the search
string as all literal?
Mostly. If you include
\V
in your pattern (I usually just put it at the beginning, but I think
it can go anywhere), it will activate "very no magic" processing.
This means that only the backslash needs to be escaped, treating
everything else literally.
:help /\V
Thanks, Tim. I don't know how I missed that in ':help magic', I think all the
backslashes in the examples table confused me!
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