On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:23 AM, John Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Fishburn wrote: > > Assume the net result is I have this: > > let test_newline = '\n' > > Is this what you mean? > > :let x = '\n' > :let x = substitute(x, '\\n', '\n', 'g') > :echo char2nr(x) > > Thanks for the response John. > The first line puts a string of two characters (a backslash and "n") into > x. > > I am glad you mentioned this because I was thinking this was 1 character (knowing what I wanted), but as you correctly pointed out, it is 2 characters. So I was very close in my examples: echo substitute(test_newline, '\\', "\\\\", 'g') Had I extended that to include the 'n', it worked as I expected: echo substitute(test_newline, '\\n', "\n", 'g') This shows the blank lines being echoed. Much appreciated. Dave -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
