Re: How escape chars in strings in functions

Nick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Vim 7.2 on Linux. I'm having problems getting my head around how to
> escape chars in a string used within a function. BTW, I'm a programmer
> and experienced vim user, but new to vim scripting.
>
> I want to insert some html tags at current cursor location, not the next
> line.
>
> String to insert:
> <a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a>
>
> Based on strings surrounded by '' not being interpreted, as per the help,
> I was going to use:
> put='<a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a>'
>
> but it bombs out at the '=' after href. The string *is* being interpreted.

Nick,
When using the = register with the :put command, you have to escape both
| and ". Try the following...
put='<a href=\"#footnote1\" id=\"back1\">[1]</a>'

:help :put

Hope it helps...
Brett Stahlman

>
> However, if I use the string in a variable and append it using exe:
> let footnote = '<a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a>"
> exe "normal a" . footnote
>
> it works fine. Clearly I don't understand when escapes are needed and why
> exe works but put doesn't.
>
> Can anyone point me to where in the manual you can find out about these
> things?
>
> Thanks,

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