I did not test the ASCII set exhaustively, but the culprit is the char “[“ (ASCII 91). Any other char (including “]”) in the string works correctly, that is, nothing is left after the filter command executes.
I do not know enough to say whether that particular char does something to the filter command, which may use regex somehow in its inner workings. Craig Craig > On Jan 23, 2024, at 9:45 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
