RE: Expanding a variable

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)

The first line puts a string of two characters (a backslash and "n") into x.

The second line changes that to a single newline character.

The third line displays 10 (linefeed).

John


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