Re: Retrieve

Le mardi 16 mai 2017 14:25:11 UTC+2, ZyX a écrit :
> 2017-05-16 14:44 GMT+03:00 Ni Va <nivaemail@gmail.com>:
> > Le mardi 16 mai 2017 12:27:34 UTC+2, ZyX a écrit :
> >> 2017-05-16 11:38 GMT+03:00 Ni Va <nivaemail@gmail.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > How to retrieve the result of this expression in a vimscript var
> >> >
> >> > let myvar = executable(prevline.',.s/PATTERN//gn')
> >> >
> >> > this seems to don't work.
> >> >
> >> > thank you!
> >>
> >> I do not understand what "expression" you mean, but `executable` is
> >> for checking whether there is some executable e.g. for use in
> >> `system()`. Given that you are trying to feed it a VimL command I
> >> think you at least wanted `execute()`.
> >>
> >> >
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> > Assuming this expre : prevline.',.s/PATTERN//gn' returns the number of occurences of pattern between prevline and currentline, I just want to store the result in a var.
>
> The expression `prevline.',.s/PATTERN//gn'` returns a string which may
> look like a VimL command (depends on what is in `prevline`). It is not
> returning any numbers, it returns a string. If you execute this string
> as a VimL *command* (commands are not expressions, what is an
> expression is described at `:h expr`) it will print a number of
> occurrences of PATTERN and number of lines where they occurred.
> `execute` and `redir` are capable of capturing what command prints (it
> is not a *result*, it is one of the side effects, commands do not
> return anything).
>
> You may do what you asked with `execute()`, but I would not suggest
> actually doing this: most of what built-in commands print is affected
> by the locale and the output you are seeking for definitely is. You
> need to either create a wrapper which calls `language messages C` and
> restores the locale afterwards, or use different technique to get the
> numbers:
>
> ```VimL
> let d = {'total_count': 0, 'prevline': 0, 'line_count': 0}
> let pattern = 'PATTERN'
> let expr = 'extend(d, {"prevline": line("."), "total_count":
> d.total_count + 1, "line_count": d.line_count + (line(".") !=
> d.prevline)})'
> execute 'silent' printf('%s,s/%s/\=[%s, ""][-1]/en%s', prevline,
> pattern, expr, repeat('g', !&gdefault))
>
> let myvar = printf('%u matches on %u lines', d.total_count, d.line_count)
> ```
>
> Note that you also have not cared about `&gdefault` option. And my
> variant does not error out if there are zero matches (remove `e` from
> flags if you need this).
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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Thanks to you I understand better now, thank you very much

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