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$fline bugs in regard to regex. #73597 04/03/04 04:21 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 77 Staffordshire, UK B BlackAle OP Babel fish
OP BlackAle Babel fish B Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 77 Staffordshire, UK	Nice to see the case problems with $fline and regex are resolved, though $fline is still not handing regex's correctly, as can be shown in the example below. Code: //window @DA.Text //aline @DA.Test $chr(3) $+ 04hello //echo Result: $fline(@DA.Test, /\x3/, 2) I'd expect the above to return a result of 1, but it returns null which is wrong.

Re: $fline bugs in regard to regex. #73598 04/03/04 08:27 AM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,831 I Iori Hoopy frood
Iori Hoopy frood I Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,831	Yeah, at first I thought \x* wasn't working, but it is except for \x<burko> codes. Works OK with // though

Re: $fline bugs in regard to regex. #73599 17/03/04 06:07 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,428 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,428 London, UK	This is purposeful behaviour, $fline() strips out control codes before performing a text match to make it easier to match against plain text, the same as with /findtext and Control+F, which is usually more useful.

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