Re: Unbalanced Wildcard searches

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Russ Urquhart  on Thu, 11
Dec 2003 21:38:56 -0600

Russ:

Try issuing just the Search part of your Change Verify command
against one of your source strings, e.g. "notify()"

se/f |W()|

Notice that it stops on the "y" in "notify()". Why? Because a
wild-W is a wild string of any size from 1 to 80 characters.
You've indicated nothing to the left of wild-W, so wild-W has no
idea where to start. The minimum string that satisfies its
requirements is "y()".

Now, if in front of " notify()" you always had a space, or you
always had a carriage return, or any predictable character, then
wild-W would grab the entire word(). But you don't indicate the
preceding context.

This is a slight improvement over Carl's code, because you don't
have to input a source word -- it just works, hands-off, on the
next-following occurrence of "anyword()" -- all you have
to do is run it (save this msg, or paste the following into
XyWrite, then command DECODE to decode it):

XPLeNCODE v2.0
b-gin [UNTITLED]
[GT_][YD_][XD_][BX_]se/f [wX]()[Q2_][DW_][CR_][DM_][DZ_]{<}S
V01{>}[XD_]{<}SX01,{<}VA@01(1{>}{>}<$I{<}GT01{>},api:{<}GT01{
>}>{<}EX{>}[cr|lf]
-nd
XPLeNCODE

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