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Re: string-match bug?


From: Colin S. Miller
Subject: Re: string-match bug?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:25:30 +0000
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Colin S. Miller wrote:

If you want to check if "foo" IS the empty string then do
(string-match "^$" "foo")

Or, of course, use (equal "" "foo").
Don't use (eq ...), it checks if the string-object
is the same, not that they have the same value.


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