Text Formatting ⇒ \hyperref get error with \verb

[bio_amateur]

It is okay to use

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\hyperref[sec:mysection]{region}

or

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\verb!region! 

separately. However, when I try to use

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\hyperref[sec:mysection]{\verb!region!}

and compile it, I get error

ERROR: Missing } inserted.
--- TeX said ---
<inserted text>
}
l.176 ...yperref[sec:define-region]{\verb!region!}

How do we resolve this?

[gmedina]

Hi,

the standard verbatim command and environment cannot be used in the arguments of other commands.

In your particular example, you could use something like

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\hyperref[sec:mysection]{\texttt{region}}

\end{document}

If you really need to use some form of verbatim as argument, then you can use some of the features provided by the fancyvrb package to do something like the following:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\SaveVerb{myverb}|region|

\hyperref[sec:mysection]{\UseVerb{myverb}}

\end{document}