[Info-vax] stumped by strange SEARCH behaviour

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

$ typ test.txt
<A HREF="http://test.org/abs/"> 1
$ sea test.txt "<A HREF=""http://test.org/"""
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
$ sea test.txt "<A HREF=""http://test.org/a"""
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
$ sea test.txt "<A HREF=""http://test.org/ab"""
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
$ sea test.txt "<A HREF=""http://test.org/abs"""
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
$ sea test.txt "<A HREF=""http://test.org/abs/"""
<A HREF="http://test.org/abs/"> 1

Why aren't the previous matches found?