Re: win32 Gvim match bug: echo match("","\\z"), return E68: Invalid character after \z

you are right, thanks

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Zac Lee wrote:

windows xp, gvim
:echo match("","\\z")
E68: Invalid character after \z
thanks

This isn't a bug.  If you're trying to match a backslash followed by the letter 'z', you need to double the backslash.  In double quotes, backslash is an escape character.  So, the regular expression you're matching contains:

\z (and not \\z)

\z is the start of a special sequence.  \\z is a literal backslash followed by a z.  If you're not trying to match a literal '\z', maybe you're looking for \zs, \ze, or \Z.

See:
:help /\\
:help /\z(
:help E68
:help /\zs
:help /\ze
:help /\Z

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Best,
Ben

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