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Prevent "research" from generating matches if search string is zero-length #172
Description
With this code:
matches = []
editor.research('', lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
print(len(matches))
I was semi-surprised to see a non-zero result printed.
Any chance that the plugin could trap on this situation and not match anything?
Same for ".search()" and ".replace()" and ".rereplace()" as well, of course.
Obviously I can do that trapping as well, before calling.
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chcg commentedon Dec 9, 2020
@sasumner With which version of the plugin? python2.7 aka 1.5.4 or a python3 beta release?
sasumner commentedon Dec 9, 2020
@chcg
Ach--sorry for omitting that.
I'm still using Python 2.7 / 1.5.4
But, I would expect the newer would still work the same way?
Again, I wouldn't call it a "bug", but it might be a nice convenience for the user to trap this.
Notepad++ itself doesn't return any matches if Find what is empty and a Find Next is done.
Ekopalypse commentedon Dec 31, 2024
@chcg - Can this be labelled
Enhancementor can it be closed?alankilborn commentedon Dec 31, 2024
I don't think it should be closed.
It seems to find a match at every position in a document.
This seems, well, unexpected.