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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: Mass change of MSWord special characters.
From:       Joel Boonstra <jboonstra () gospelcom ! net>
Date:       2002-12-11 19:18:40
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Piet Delport wrote:
<snip>
> > Based on my experimentations then, and a clue from a few folks, "\x" in
> > a regexp matches a character from the character class [0-9A-Fa-f], much
> > like \d matches a digit.  Therefore, "\x92" would (I think) match any
> > valid hex digit, followed by a literal 9, then a literal 2.
>
> True, except that :substitute never sees the \x92.  That's what the exec
> is for; the \x92 is replaced with a literal 0x92 char via the normal
> escaping mechanism of double-quoted strings, before being passed to the
> substitution command.

Wow, ok.  That's pretty handy.

Thanks!

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