From dd3d857c390bee1f467eda9ec82c29948672bbff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zeertzjq Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 17:10:58 +0800 Subject: vim-patch:8.2.1461: Vim9: string indexes are counted in bytes Problem: Vim9: string indexes are counted in bytes. Solution: Use character indexes. (closes vim/vim#6574) https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e3c37d8ebf9dbbf210fde4a5fb28eb1f2a492a34 Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar --- runtime/doc/eval.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'runtime') diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 0c18fd5b4e..9ee38e06d6 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -1152,6 +1152,8 @@ text column numbers start with one! Example, to get the byte under the cursor: > :let c = getline(".")[col(".") - 1] +Index zero gives the first byte. Careful: text column numbers start with one! + If the length of the String is less than the index, the result is an empty String. A negative index always results in an empty string (reason: backward compatibility). Use [-1:] to get the last byte. -- cgit