Re: Bug in se/t

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Harry:

> Anyone experienced the /t problem before?

Yup. Well-known. Don't use it.

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Carl Distefano
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> After many hours of frustration, I found what was messing up one of my XPL
> programs:
>
> se/t /string/
>
> doesn't always actually search from the top of the file!
>
> Here's what didn't work at one point in a long program:
>
> BX se/t /alias ^«PV21»^ /Q2 ;*;  search for a string surrounded by carets
> «IF«ER»»BX se/t /alias «PV21» /Q2 «EI»;*; if not found, search for it w/o
> carets
> «IF«ER»»«SX05,«IS05»+«IS21»+«IS586»»«GLB»«EI»;*; try to deal w. errors
>
> simply adding a TF and dropping the /t made it happy:
>
> TF BX se /alias ^«PV21»^ /Q2 :*;
> «IF«ER»»BX se /alias «PV21» /Q2«EI»;*;
> «IF«ER»»«SX05,«IS05»+«IS21»+«IS586»»«GLB»«EI»
>
> I might add that error arises in a 4K XPL program that operates on a 71K
> text file. But none of the variables would be storing more than 800 bytes,
> and there are only 20 variables in all, most storing only a few bytes.
> Still, it could be memory problems.
>
> Anyone experienced the /t problem before?
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>