How to tell if something is put into the message box

[Ali Lloyd]

The target icon at the bottom of the message box will take you to the line
of script that last 'put' something there.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:10 AM Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> OK, I am NOT a regex expert, but ...
>
> wouldn't that give you other lines like
>     put tVar into myVar
>
> should it not be simply
> ^put \w$
> so that you don't get all the other put statements ... that "+" allows
> any number (>=1) of words.
>
> And even then, you will miss
>     if x = y then put tVar
> and
>    put tVar    -- for debug purposes
> and
>    put tVar + tVar1
> and lots of other less constructs :-)
>
> -- Alex.
>
> On 29/12/2016 21:18, Kay C Lan wrote:
> > If all you were looking for was incidences of:
> >
> > put tVar
> >
> > you could always just open the 'Find and Replace' from the Edit menu,
> > select This stack, tick the 'Reg. Expression' box and search for:
> >
> > ^put \w+$
> >
> > I know you'll know what this means but for those not so familiar with
> regex:
> >
> > ^ = start of line
> >    followed by a space character
> > \w = any word character
> > + = 1 or more times
> > $ = end of line
> >
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