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| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 766dafd1d7..b1131ad4db 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -6221,12 +6221,22 @@ string({expr}) Return {expr} converted to a String. If {expr} is a Number, {expr} type result ~ String 'string' Number 123 - Float 123.123456 or 1.123456e8 - Funcref function('name') + Float 123.123456 or 1.123456e8 or + `str2float('inf')` + Funcref `function('name')` List [item, item] Dictionary {key: value, key: value} Note that in String values the ' character is doubled. Also see |strtrans()|. + Note 2: Output format is mostly compatible with YAML, except + for infinite and NaN floating-point values representations + which use |str2float()|. Strings are also dumped literally, + only single quote is escaped, which does not allow using YAML + for parsing back binary strings (including text when + 'encoding' is not UTF-8). |eval()| should always work for + strings and floats though and this is the only official + method, use |msgpackdump()| or |json_encode()| if you need to + share data with other application. *strlen()* strlen({expr}) The result is a Number, which is the length of the String diff --git a/runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt b/runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt index 6609a96e9e..47dd48a93d 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt @@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ are always available and may be used simultaneously in separate plugins. The Same thing applies to |string()| (though it uses construct like "{E724@level}"), but this is not reliable because |string()| continues to error out. +4. Stringifyed infinite and NaN values now use |str2float()| and can be evaled + back. Viminfo text files were replaced with binary (messagepack) ShaDa files. Additional differences: |