apply function to substitution?

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Reckoner

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Mar 30, 2008, 7:50:10 PM3/30/08

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is this possible:

:%s/\(.*\)/some_function(\1)/g

where some_function is something I would define myself. Python has this function, BTW.

Thanks in advance.

Tony Mechelynck

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Mar 30, 2008, 8:04:47 PM3/30/08

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:%s/.*/\=some_function(submatch(0))/

see
:help sub-replace-special
:help submatch()

Note that since the * operator is greedy, .* matches the whole line,
therefore the g flag doesn't change anything (there is only one whole
line on each line).