Inconsistent behavior...

[LiangTyan Fui]

On 4/18/02 6:07 PM, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> my mistake. The script calling this function had a bug!
> Sorry!

Why don't you just use:
filter olist with ("*"& str &"*")

Regards,
LiangTyan Fui


> Xavier
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xbury.cs at clearstream.com [mailto:xbury.cs at clearstream.com]
>> Sent: 18 April 2002 11:33
>> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Inconsistent behavior...
>> 
>> 
>> Here's an extremely fast search function.
>> The function filters lines from a variable (olist) containing
>> a string...
>> 
>> function FilterLines olist,str
>>  set the wholematches to false
>>  put 1 into thisline
>>   put "" into nulist
>>   repeat while thisline > 0
>>     set cursor to busy
>>     
>>     put LineOffset(str,olist) into thisline
>>     put line thisline of olist & return after nulist
>>     delete line 1 to thisline of olist
>>     if olist is empty then exit repeat
>>     
>>   end repeat
>>   return nulist
>> end FilterLines
>> 
>> my olist looks contains
>> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,F,543923,15571
>> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,E,475933,53211
>> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,D,441937,31518
>> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,C,15,14
>> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,F,543923,40982
>> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,E,475933,56361
>> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,D,441937,27808
>> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,C,15,14
>> 
>> The string im searching for is ","&"F" &","
>> 
>> When I do the search, with wholematches = true (first line in
>> FilterLines)
>> only the first line is found... If I set wholematches to
>> false, it finds all
>> the lines...
>> Of course, I tried to change the searchstring to "BUFFET,F,"
>> but there is no
>> change.
>> 
>> Can anyone see the problem? I can't search for F alone...
>> Changing the comma in the lists would mean too much
>> programming changes in
>> my application...
>> 
>> Why can't this work???
>> 
>> Thanks for any help...
>> Xavier
>> 
>> 
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