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When you are working in php or c or cpp using the extension is a great way to define a "class".

The problem starts when you are working in an environment where there is no extension.

An example of this is PICK (or any of the 10+ flavors of multivalued environments). So you might have source with ...

I am trying to find any routine with a string like

INVENTORY.

and

=

I tried this

INVENTORY\.*= *

but the results were less than expected.

Ideas?

thanks

You also need to be aware that TextPad will find the longest match possible on each line. This means that using the example you gave ben_josephs search expression will match from the first INVENTORY to the second =.

so what you are saying is that if i was in a specific record and did that ...

You need to use regular expressions, in which certain characters have special meanings:
“ . � (dot) matches any single character except newline.
“ .* � matches any number of characters except newline.
“ * � (there's a space in front of the “ * �) matches any number of spaces.

When ...

does this work for anyone else under the current release?

I agree .. textpad is a brilliant product. There are some areas like triggers for Auto-Indent that bother me. When things like this are hard coded then it limits things that could be done.

I just hope that some day the developer will continue enhancing and parameterizing

What i am asking here is ..

Is the Automatic Indent feature a hard coded feature or is there a way to change the KEY that forces indent/outdent?

thanks

Is this working in 4.7.3?

I have done a FindInFiles and have the search results window open.

I then File/Workspace/Save and enter a name

I then close TP, reopen, file/workspace/open and the heading comes up as
'Search Results - TextPad' but there is no search results window.

what am i missing

tia

Using findInFiles i am trying to find all instances of a specific string regardless of some characters. Here is an example line

IF INVENTORY.REC(III+14)<1,PURCHASE.ORDERS.WHSE.NO>=0 THEN INVENTORY.REC(III+14)<1,PURCHASE.ORDERS.WHSE.NO>=""

I have found all lines with INVENTORY.REC( using the string ...

This will probably help you out.......

From: http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6483

Try this:

1. From the Configure menu choose Preferences
2. + sign next to Document classes
3. + sign next to Default
4. Colors
5. From the "Item menu", click on "Current line"
6. Click on the arrows ...

I know that all the world are c programmers <G> but ..

is it possible to change the indent characters?

I have been using Textpad for years and would love to be able to have it auto-indent and maintain using 'words' instead of curly braces.

A large part of my business in in "MV" (or PICK) basic ...

bveldkamp wrote:Look up "StringEsc" in your syntax file, and maybe also "CharEsc"

Berend

great answer and correct . Thanks

In a programming language we use the following line shows incorrectly highlighted

if purgeOutputLocation[-1,1] # '\' then purgeErrorLocation := '\'

then problem is that all text after the first ' is highlighted as a string.

My guess is that TEXTPAD assumes that the \ is escaping the closing ' and ...

Thanks .. worked great

DSig

I have searched and not found this question so ..

After a Search/Results is there any way to save off the results and then reactivate them? Specifc search is on a group of some 1500 files and really don't want to go through the search a second, third etc.

But want to be able to DClick and have it ...