Not sure this is really a bug. The default is to match a wildcardPattern. If you want to match [ then you must use [[] in the pattern.
Brian Milby br...@milby7.com > On Jan 23, 2024, at 9:02 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Try this in the msg box: > > put "aaa[bbb" into tStr; put line 1 of tStr into tLine; filter tStr without > tLine; put tStr > I get (using MacOS, LC 9.6.11) > > aaa[bbb > > That is to say, the line is not filtered out. > > And: > > put "aaa[bbb" into tStr; filter tStr with tStr; put tStr > > produces an empty string instead of the original string. > > The bug occurs if the line contains the character “[“ anywhere; any lines > containing that character are ignored by both filter with and filter without. > > This is really serious, because I rely on the filter command a lot, as I > would think do many other developers! > > Don’t know if it occurs with other characters, but I have never seen it > before. I discovered it when filtering lines with regular expressions. Other > special regexp characters I have tested do not trigger the bug. > > Neville Smythe > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
