comma delimited search strings did not work

AndyS · Post by **AndyS** » 2012 Jun 17, 01:56

I have a folder with many AutoIT source files that I want to search for either of 2 strings. If I do a CTRL-F and enter *.au3 in the file specifier and "func my,func abc" (without the quotes), the search fails. However, if I use "func my", the search finds the string in one of the files, and if I use "func abc", the search finds a different file. Why does my comma-delimited string ("func my,func abc") not find the files? What am I doing wrong?

profess · Post by **profess** » 2012 Jun 17, 02:15

must be to do with the spaces in the strings.

maybe try "func my", "func abc" see if that works.

regards

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2012 Jun 17, 09:20

The only way I could reproduce this was to have "Verbatim" ticked - obviously. Other than that, separating two strings (even with spaces) with a comma worked fine. I even liberally sprinkled "func myself" and "func abcough" throughout multiple au3 files in multiple nested directories, just to make sure - found them all as expected.

Be sure only "Search all Files" is ticked, not any of the other options.

profess · Post by **profess** » 2012 Jun 17, 09:22

^

Most probably what he said

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2012 Jun 17, 09:29

...except the part about a grown man "funcing himself" on a Sunday morning - there's something rather unseemly about that.

Though I'm sure the Marquis de Sade would have loved to use x2 for similar body-cavity-text-searches all the time, if he had had electricity. This century may have a profligate amount of shiny tech, but it's so tame in all the human aspects that make us the deviants we really are at heart, regardless of prevailing opinion.