deepcopy.md

function deepcopy()

Vim Reference

:help deepcopy()
:help copy()

Short Description

Create a copy of the given expression.

Example

In the following example I will use a list as a demo object. There you can see how the assignment is only copying the list reference, but deepcopy() creates an actual copy. We are chaning l1 by adding a new element, and l2 is affected because the reference has been copied, and l3 is a new list and therefore not affected by the change.

let l1=['a', 'b', 'c']
let l2=l1
let l3=deepcopy(l1)
call add(l1, 'd')
echo l2
echo l3