Hello,
first, please keep do not answer on the list _and_ private. I read the
list regular.
Am Mo den 12. Mär 2012 um 17:45 schrieb John Burnham:
> > am I right with that nwildlsearch will search for the _begin_
> > of the key
> > in the lookup and that I have to use "^...$" to be sure that
> > I match the
> > full string?
> >
> No.
> lsearch is a linear search and simply searches for the key given and returns the data associated with it.
> From the docs:
> lsearch: The given file is a text file that is searched linearly for a line beginning with the search key, terminated by a colon or white space or the end of the line. The search is case-insensitive; that is, upper and lower case letters are treated as the same. The first occurrence of the key that is found in the file is used.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So your answer suggests that I am right.
However, I read the documentation and it is not fully clear at that
point. It is clear that /lsearch/ match the begin of the search key. But
what about the /(n)wildsearch/? There is nothing in the documentation
except that this might be the same than with /lsearch/.
And with this assumption the /(n)wildsearch/ also matches the begin of
the search key. So if I match with ^...$ (or ^\N...$\N without the "n")
I should match the full search key?
Regards
Klaus
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