Re: search an expression with an opening left bracket : "("
- From: Roland Illig <roland illig gmx de>
- To: sting sting <zstingx hotmail com>
- Cc: mc gnome org
- Subject: Re: search an expression with an opening left bracket : "("
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:22:06 +0200
sting sting wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to perform a search in mc like thus:
I am looking for all files which have an occurrence of the follwoing
text: my_method(
(with the left bracket)
Command->FindFile
In the content I put the follwing:
my_method(
I get a red popup saying:
Malformed regular expression.
Is there a way to perform such a search in MC ?
Yes, there is. Just escape the ( with a \, that is search for
"my_method\(". You are expected to enter a "regular expression" here.
Google for it and you will find it to be very powerful.
For example you can search for my_method[ ]*\( to search for the string
my_method, followed by any number of spaces (in the brackets are the
allowed characters, the * after the closing bracket means "0 or more")
followed by an opening parenthesis.
I'll have a look to improve this behaviour. Either I write it somewhere
in the dialog that a regular expression is expected or I let the user
select whether {s,}he wants to
[ ] do a regular expression search.
Roland
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