Hi Tim,
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 2:35 PM Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was looking for something similar to Python's re.findall()/finditer()
> function to answer a question on Reddit[1] but was surprised I
> couldn't find anything in
>
> :help function-list
>
> The general intent would be to take an input string and return a
> List containing all the sub-strings matching a pattern like
>
> let matches=findall('amwenxipyuqz', '[aeiou]')
>
> would set matches to
>
> ['aw', 'en', 'ip', 'uq']
>
> I was able to cobble together a hack-job in this case, but I'd hoped
> to be able to do something like
>
> :let a=[] | g/#\w\+/call extend(a, findall(getline('.'), @/))
>
> Does such a function exist and I just missed it?
>
>
Currently no such function exists. I have created PR
https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/13766
to add support for the matchall() function. Can you try that out?
Thanks,
Yegappan
> Thanks!
>
> -tim
>
> [1]
> https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/18pcd84/the_vim_way/kenedxq/
>
>
>
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