Lister: Search for "\t" always operates in RegEx-M

[wanderer]

Hmmm. Thanks. So, i guess that in order to search for the string "\\" (2 backslashes), one would actually have to enter \\\\ (4 backslashes). Funny though, 3 backslashes also finds \\ in a file! Anyway...

[redfox]

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a txt (bat etc.) file in a directory. The text will contain "\", for example \test.
2) Press Alt+F7, fill a search phrase "\test" in the "find text" field and start the search; all the search options are default (Ansi win/dos, utf 8/16 ON).
3) No results will be found.

Additional testing:

Change the file content to

a) \test no results
b) test\ ok
c) te\st ok
d) c\test no result
e) c:\test no result
f) ccc\test no result

Please, fix the bug ASAP, it is very serious for me.
Thanks

[Horst.Epp]

Next time let out the ASAP
and take the time to read more from the help !
The \t has to be escaped as it stands for a tab.
So you have to search for \\test

[Dalai]

Find text
If this option is checked, you can enter text to be searched. With \t you find tabstops, and with \n line breaks (ENTER) in texts. To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

Regards
Dalai

[redfox]

There should be an option at least in the wincmd.ini to enable text searching in a standard way, without automatically resolving backslash as a part of a possible escape sequence.
This one, i.e. the need of typing it twice, is really uncomfortable. Most people want to search for a phrase containing one or more backslash characters - especially in a source code / file paths. On the other side, finding a tab (\t) or a newline (\n) sequence in a file is a rare case, I personally never needed it.

Sorry for the "ASAP".

[Hacker]

Moderator message

Moved to the English forum.

Hacker (Moderator)

[MVV]

I also think that escaping should be optional, as it is in text editors, because normal text is searched much more often than escaped text...

[Garrett]

TC 10.52

1. Create text file with string "033\\^\033".
2. try find text "033\\^\033" in viewer or by Alt-F7 in current dir (both without regexp) - no result.

TC treat \\ as \ and search "033\\^\033" as "033\^\033"...

[AntonyD]

2Garrett
so use this:
033\\\^\\033

Or you want to understand - why in principle TC treat \\ as \? even if we do not tick checkmark for RegExp?

[petermad]

2Garrett

This is not a bug, it is a feature:

Find text If this option is checked, you can enter text to be searched. With \t you find tabstops, and with \n line breaks (ENTER) in texts. To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

[Garrett]

2Garrett

This is not a bug, it is a feature:

Find text If this option is checked, you can enter text to be searched. With \t you find tabstops, and with \n line breaks (ENTER) in texts. To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

Maybe it's better to make the special codes work only if there is a check mark on the regular expressions checkbox?

[browny]

Windows 11 current, TC 11.50b5, 64-bit (same behaviour in 11.03 with deleted [Lister] section)
Create a file with a string containing \t, for example

Code: Select all

whatever\tmore

Search for \t fails.
All checkboxes unticked, so this is not a regular expression or wrong case.

[Horst.Epp]

\t searches for a tab, regardless of the regex setting.
Try \\t
And next time, please don't make error reports before checking the help and the forum.

[ghisler(Author)]

2Horst.Epp
It's OK, better too many reports than no reports.

[Horst.Epp]

2Horst.Epp
It's OK, better too many reports than no reports.

Agreed, but why not asking first in the normal English forum.