On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 2:39:04 AM UTC+4, howar...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What were you expecting to happen?
>
> The documentation says: 
>
>        Both  pattern and replacement must be valid Go expressions. In the 
> pat‐
>        tern, single-character lowercase identifiers serve as wildcards 
>  match‐
>        ing  arbitrary  sub-expressions;  those expressions will be 
> substituted
>        for the same identifiers in the replacement.
>
> So if 'h' had shown up in the replacement, it would get replaced with the 
> original identifier - but it did not appear, instead H did.
>
> It *looks* like you were expecting it to change the "hello, world\n" to 
> "Hello, world\n"? But gofmt's -r requires that both pattern and replacement 
> be valid Go expressions. 
>
> This:
> gofmt -r "\"hello, world\\n\" -> \"Hello, world\\n\""
>
> Has the effect I think you might have been going for. I'm not certain what 
> you were intending though, so I'm not sure of that.
>
> That's it, than you very much. 

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