george fotheringay wrote: > Is the following a bug, or a feature I'm using improperly? > > I'm using Lua to find occurrences of lines which begin with the > character "[", via the call > editor:findtext(pattern,SCIFIND_REGEXP,position), > where pattern is the string "^\[". This is not working, even if I omit > the anchor "^" from the pattern. (The code in which this embedded IS > working properly, since I can replace pattern with other search > strings successfully.)
use "\\[" for a literal '\' Take care, -Mitchell; > > In order to succeed, I had to resort to the pattern "^[[-[]" instead. > Preliminary googling doesn't turn up any discussion of regexp bugs for > Scintilla/SciTE. The documentation does seem to indicate that "[" is a > character which can be correctly escaped via "\". > > (I'm on SciTE v. 1.72 on Windows XP, using the Sc1.exe binary.) > > Thanks, GF _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
