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Whonut
Whonut

Reputation: 288

How to open a filepath given by fnamemodify() in Vimscript

I'm trying to make a function to open a specified Project Euler problem. Here's what I have:

function ProjectEuler ()
    let problem = input('Enter problem number: ')
    cd /Users/me/Documents/Computer_Stuff/Code/Project_Euler
    e fnamemodify('problem'.problem.'.py', ':p') 
endfunction

fnamemodify() gives the correct filepath to any problem I enter, so my thinking was that e would then open the file at that filepath, but instead it opens /Users/me/Documents/Computer_Stuff/Code/Project_Euler/fnamemodify('problem'.problem.'.py', ':p').

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 315

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196476

You must use :execute to use variables or expressions in a mapping or command.

execute "edit " . fnamemodify('foo.txt', ':p')

Upvotes: 2

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