Friday, January 29, 2010

Re: search for null

Ron Olson wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> Is there a particular way I can use to search for instances of null
> (ascii 0, hex 0x0) in a file? I haven't come up with a way to do so,
> yet there is clearly a null in my file as moving over it shows ascii 0
> and hex 0x0, I just want to find/highlight all the others.
>
> Thanks.

$ vim -u NONE -U NONE -c 'set hls dy=uhex'

Then search for NUL char with:

/<c-v>000<Enter>

(where <c-v> is "control-v" key)

and I see the NUL chars highlighted.

See:
:help i_CTRL-V
:help 'dy'
:help 'hls'

-- Dominique

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