Dr. Chip, I may be trivializing what's happening, but have you considered using \_s instead of just \s?
Or passing it to another map that calls trim before? Something like split -> mapWithTrim -> yourOriginalMap I'm sure I'm missing something obvious because someone with your experience wouldn't ask a question if it were this simple. Also, I'm using my mobile phone right now so I can't actually type the full syntax. I would've used a join instead of the last map and just wrap the result in a <> pair. -- Salman On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 19:05 Charles Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem with map(). I've had problems with map() > before, and consequently I really really hate to use it. > Here goes: > > 1: construct a comment: > > " Testing: one two | three four | five | six | > " seven | eight |; > > 2. grab characters: > > fo<ctrl-v>j$"ay > > > 3. convert to list: > > let list= split(@a,'\s*|\s*;\=',' ') > > 4. Now, try to use map(): > > call map(list,"substitute(v:val,'<&>','','ge')") > > Intent: to put <...> around every argument. Now, this isn't really my > final intent for this, but if I could get that substitute to work, it'd be > a nice start. Please note, the request is on how to get a substitute() to > work with map(), not to put angle brackets around every list element, for > which :help map() already has an example. > > 5. Bonus request: my construction above carefully gets a newline into the > list. Using :echo string(list): > > ['one two', 'three four', 'five', 'six', ' > seven', 'eight', ' '] > > I cannot seem to get rid of the newline, but its probably due to my > lack of success with substitute(). > > I've spent about three hours on this so far, with multiple attempts, all > unsuccessful. Perhaps an extra example in help map() illustrating how to do > this would be of use? > > Thank you, > Chip Campbell > > -- > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/91e26ba3-9e1b-19ad-3c43-ff7b42a0de3c%40drchip.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/91e26ba3-9e1b-19ad-3c43-ff7b42a0de3c%40drchip.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CANuxnEfkwDiTgaC9e2zDNCo6-nhch4N3A9B59EV6JbAdws1U8A%40mail.gmail.com.
