editor.findText()

[Ron Jensen]

http://npppythonscript.sourceforge.net/docs/latest/scintilla.html?highlight=findtext#Editor.findText tells me the first field is 'flags'

Editor.findText(flags, start, end, ft) → object¶
Find some text in the document.

See Scintilla documentation for SCI_FINDTEXT

http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_FINDTEXT calls it "int searchFlags" and poking around the page I see these flags: SCFIND_MATCHCASE SCFIND_WHOLEWORD SCFIND_WORDSTART SCFIND_REGEXP SCFIND_POSIX but I can't use those directly in the command,

myFind = editor.findText(SCFIND_REGEXP,0,endPos,"\t")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'SCFIND_REGEXP' is not defined

How do I use these flags?

Thanks,

Jentron

[Dave Brotherstone]

The flags you want are in FINDOPTION, which has the options WHOLEWORD, MATCHCASE, WORDSTART, REGEXP and POSIX (although POSIX should have no effect).

e.g.

editor.findText(FINDOPTION.WORDSTART | FINDOPTION.MATCHCASE, 0, editor.getLength(), "Test")

It'd be great if the documentation included references to which flags are used in which calls - I'm sorry they don't at the moment.

Cheers,
Dave.

[Ron Jensen]

Great, thanks! A lot more readable than editor.findText(0x00600000,...)

:D

The Scittilla says SCFIND_POSIX Treat regular expression in a more POSIX compatible manner by interpreting bare ( and ) for tagged sections rather than ( and ). So it should change the behavior of parenthesis?

I noticed when the Boost regex engine was updated that dots "." now need to be escaped in the replace string "."