Re: Translate \u0041 to A

On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 9:32:11 PM UTC+11, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> A\u0042C\u0044E
>>
>> What substitute changes it to:
>>
>> ABCDE
>
> Something like this:
> :%s/\\u\(\x\{4\}\)/\=nr2char('0x'.submatch(1),1)/g
>
> or with a function like this:
>
> func! String(match)
> exe 'return "'.a:match.'"'
> endfunc
>
> And then:
> :%s/\\u\x\{4\}/\=String(submatch(0))/g

Thanks, I started well but got entirely lost.

John

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