如何搜索和摆脱这个角色？

Question

Bulmaca-Zeka Oyunu<200f>

I have a lot of strings in a text file, and I noticed that one has this <200f> char. I want to find all entries that have this char and remove it. But in Vim I can't find it by searching '<200f>' using the search string '<200f>'. Probably it is one char not 6 individual chars.

In Python or VIM, how to remove or search them?

Answer 1

Those literal characters in angle brackets are how Vim handles some problematic unprintable characters. They are quite puzzling at first but they are really easy to figure out because they simply spell out the character's hexadecimal code.

In this case, <200f> is the literal representation of U+200F , which you search like this:

/\%u200f

So, if you want to get rid of the occurrences of <200f> in the current buffer, all you have to do is:

:%s/\%u200f//g

See :help \%u .

Answer 2

You can't find it in vim because you're not searching for the correct string. Check your vim documentation: angle brackets are meta-characters. Simply escape them, and remove the undesired strings.

:%s/\<200f\>//g

Answer 3

In Python you could perhaps use string replacement:

line_of_text = "Bulmaca-Zeka Oyunu<200f>"
print(line_of_text.replace("<200f>", "")

Output:

Bulmaca-Zeka Oyunu