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From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: 18.52 search-forward can't find NULL ("\000")
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Date: 20 Jan 89 15:29:48 GMT
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In article <8901191850.AA01262@mrspoc.UUCP>, mrspoc!kayvan@APPLE (Kayvan Sylvan) writes:
>I have a file containing:
>
>abcde^@fghijk^@kjhkjhkj
>
>with point at "a", I do eval-expression (search-forward "\0").
>The message 'Search failed: "' appears in the message area.

It's doing exactly what you told it to.  The string "\0" is the same as
the string "0".  In order to get the NULL character, you have to specify
the octal value '000' after the backslash:  "\000".

Happy Searching,
--woodstock
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	   "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking
	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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