Re: Strangeness of "next" regular expression
Re: Strangeness of "next" regular expression
- Subject: Re: Strangeness of "next" regular expression
- From: Jerry <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 18:17:27 +0100
On 6 May 2007, at 16:35, Jeffrey Oleander wrote:
Christopher Henrich <email@hidden> wrote:
I am working my way through /Beginning/ /Xcode/ by James
Bucanek, and have come to the treatment of searching for
regular expressions. It seems as if hitting the "Next"
button finds the next occurrence of a regular expression
beginning at the *end* of the current line...
Is this a feature?? Is there a way to turn it on or off?
Hah! I just found a way to defeat it! After finding one
occurrence, I set the cursor after what I have just
found.
Then getting the "next" occurrence works as I expected.
So this looks to me like a feature with a work-around.
In SED there's the g switch to tell it to, e.g. make a
substitution to every occurrence of the pattern on every
indicated line. If you don't specify the g, it has the
behavior you're seeing.
So, the GUI is behaving in an analogous way, but does not
have the equivalent of that g switch. File a bugreport...
Maybe I will, maybe I will.
I find this severely limits the usefulness of regular expression
searching, and I usually go back to CodeWarrior for any big RE
manipulation.
Jerry
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