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

[Adam Golding]

(still returns a null sting)

2008/6/19 Adam Golding <adamgolding at gmail.com>:

> hmm, that makes sense, but it doesn't work either! (just tested)
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> 2008/6/19 Philipp Wolfer <phw at rubyforge.org>:
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> 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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