#12 Grave character treated differently in whole word search

[Bill Horger]

I was searching for a small string as a word. The string was "rs". When used in my application, it might be preceded by a variety of special characters, so I used the short string. But not all occurrences were found. Specifically when preceded by a grave character. There may be others as well, I don't know. When I tried to search by whole name including the leading grave character, nothing was found. If I removed the "Whole Word" selection, Astrogrep found it. Apparently even without regular expressions enabled, the grave character is treated differently(?).

[Jackslade]

I'll take a look at this when I find some time.

The whole word option does use a regular expression. The search text is escaped before being used as well, but perhaps the grave character is causing an issue with the regex.

[Bill Horger]

Thanks, your explanation makes sense. I appreciate your efforts; love the
product!

Bill

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:45 AM Jackslade jackslade@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

I'll take a look at this when I find some time.

The whole word option does use a regular expression. The search text is
escaped before being used as well, but perhaps the grave character is
causing an issue with the regex.

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• [support-requests:#12]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/astrogrep/support-requests/12/ Grave character
  treated differently in whole word search*

Status: open
Group: v4.2.4
Labels: 4.4.6
Created: Sat Nov 14, 2020 04:34 PM UTC by Bill Horger
Last Updated: Sat Nov 14, 2020 04:34 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

I was searching for a small string as a word. The string was "rs". When
used in my application, it might be preceded by a variety of special
characters, so I used the short string. But not all occurrences were found.
Specifically when preceded by a grave character. There may be others as
well, I don't know. When I tried to search by whole name including the
leading grave character, nothing was found. If I removed the "Whole Word"
selection, Astrogrep found it. Apparently even without regular expressions
enabled, the grave character is treated differently(?).

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