OK, instead of working I did this: on mouseUp
repeat with y = 1 to 255 put "XX" & numToChar(y) & "XX" into temp filter temp without temp if temp <> "" then put y & return after accum end repeat answer accum end mouseUp There are two characters that prevent the filter command from doing its job: ASCII 91 (“[“) and ASCII 10, the return char. Craig > On Jan 24, 2024, at 12:51 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Brian. > > Nope. Those two chars pass through the filter, er, filtered. > > Again, I did not test the entire character set. > > Craig > >> On Jan 24, 2024, at 11:05 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> The only other two that would cause issues are ? and * which are single and >> multiple char wildcards respectively. >> >> Brian Milby >> br...@milby7.com >> >>> On Jan 24, 2024, at 10:21 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
