[mb-users] $rsearch doesn't work in Picard?

[Adam Golding]

hmm, that makes sense, but it doesn't work either! (just tested)

2008/6/19 Philipp Wolfer <phw at rubyforge.org>:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Adam Golding <adamgolding at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When I put in $rsearch(foo,foo) and preview nothing is returned (i.e. it
>> keeps what was previously displayed in the preview)--unless I misunderstand,
>> it should return 'foo'.
>
>
>  I had a look at it. $rsearch will return the first matched group of your
> regular expression, so unless you have some kind of group in parentheses it
> will return an empty string. $rsearch(\(foo\),foo) should work (I've not
> tested it).
>
> That's how it currently works, but I don't know if it's the way it should
> work. IMHO it's misleading. I expected it to return the first match in the
> string.
>
> --
> Philipp Wolfer
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