butcher

Vim plugin to quickly parse strings into arrays.

It is painful to write arrays in any programming language, so butcher makes it easy for you.

Installation

With vim-plug:

Plug "zim0369/butcher"

Add this to your vimrc:

noremap 
   
    n :'<,'>. !xargs $HOME/.vim/plugged/butcher/nums
    
     
noremap 
     
      s :'<,'>. !xargs $HOME/.vim/plugged/butcher/string
      

      
     
    
   

Usage

Suppose you have this line in your program that you want to turn into an array of strings.

Turn this into an array of strings

Now visually select the entire line and press s .

The above line gets replaced with this beautiful array :

["Turn", "this", "into", "an", "array", "of", "strings"]

Array of characters? Suppose you have this word in your program that you want to turn into an array of characters.

Characters

Now visually select the entire line and press s .

The above line gets replaced with this beautiful array :

['C', 'h', 'a', 'r', 'a', 'c', 't', 'e', 'r', 's']

Array of numbers? Suppose you have this line in your program that you want to turn into an array of numbers.

1 2 4 5 4 5 5

Now visually select the entire line and press n .

The above line gets replaced with this beautiful array :

[1, 2, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5]

You can go ahead and change the keybindings.