[Info-vax] bizarre SEARCH bug (7.3-2 Alpha)

[Dave Froble]

On 11/12/2019 5:46 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <qqeqod$ks4$2 at pcls7.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
> (Michael Moroney) writes:
>
>>> What is strange is that the second "]" is not highlighted.  The text
>>> contains many examples of two of each in one line, and the others look
>>> OK, whether or not there is text between the matching pairs or not.
>>
>> Looking through the audit trail, I see a fix in SEARCH.B32 of a problem where
>> SEARCH fails to highlight some instances of a matching string. November 2005.
>
> Interesting; I see it only with [], not with any other characters.  But
> that must be it.
>

If it really bothers you, try a newer version of SEARCH.  No idea if the 
V8.4 program will work on the older VMS version.

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