> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, john york <[email protected] 
><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > I need to match a whole word witch the match() function.
> > For example, I need to know the position of "foo" inside the string :
> >
> > "not-this-foo foo fooNotGood"
> >
> > The \<foo\> doesn't seems to work inside the match() function.
> > Is there any way to do it ?
> 
> :echo match('not-this-foo foo fooNotGood', '\<foo\>')
> 
> Returns 13, which is correct:
> :echo 'not-this-foo foo fooNotGood'[13:]
> 
> You were probably trying to use "\<foo\<", instead of surrounding the regex
> with single quotes.
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John, Andres, thank you for your replies.
The problem was the double quotes.
You solved my problem, thanks a lot.

Regards


      

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