[Oberon] Re: Text search is THE main task.
easlab at absamail.co.za
easlab at absamail.co.za
Wed Jun 16 12:41:46 CEST 2004
John Drake wrote:-
> Well I extended RX to handle multiple files. It took
> longer than expected because I ran into a bug in
> RX. RX as shipped won't handle files containing
> charecters over 138. That's fine for a lot of things
> (all ASCII files for instance) but Oberon Text can
> have charecters over 138. I'm not sure why this
> wasn't caught before. It took me a while to realize
> that the problem existed in RX as shipped and not
> in the changes I had made.
>
There were some 'updates' to RX.
My 2001 version shows: System.Directory RX.Obj\d
== RX.Obj 01.05.2002 15:07:30 11588
> Anyway I've added a command RX.GrepAll that will
> search all files meeting a specific pattern.
> For instance:
>
> RX.GrepAll "*.Mod" ("Write" | "String")
>
Are you making the code available [for beta testers].
> would return all lines from all modules containing
> the words "Write" or "String". Of course that's
> an "or" type search. It looks like you're wanting
> to do "and" searches.
Yes please !
Google blows my mind away: I need the press/print report[s] of
municipal corruption exposed on TV last night [here is deep-dark
africa]. By ANDing a few key-words I've got it/them.
Obviously the print occured before the TV - google won't update
from distant locations within hours ?
What attracted me to [the existing] "Find" is that it
uses "Find.Domain <file list>", so you can 'refine/restrict' the
file search-space by existing tools. Eg. by SmartDir.Directory
[which I suspect is not included in the distributions, but which
I use daily, and should be included].
Running RX.Grep <file of list-of-files> \i <extentions/types to omit>
trims out the fileTypes which are not to be searched.
Eg. in a BIG SYS: partition, you can skip all: *.Obj, *.Bak,
*.Scn.Fnt, ...etc. [which can't be moved out to their own
partition] by building a file list, [for repeated use], by repeated
applications of RX.Grep.
BTW. v2.3.2 has a facility & panel to include a date range for
the files to be searched [it's potentially problematic, since the
date format required is not obvious]. I'm wondering why this
was omitted from later versions ?
> > Edgar who wrote:_
> > > The problem is that I have to find WebNavigator
> > first. I'm sure it's still
> > > somewhere on my disk :-)
> >
> > I believe that ascii-text is ascii-text inside of
> > *.Obj ?
> >
>
> A text search facility is the wrong tool for that
> job IMO. Edgar could easily go to the
> Documents.Panel, type "WebNav*" in the search
> box and click the "Show" button. That would
> should all files in the Oberon search path that
> began with the string "WebNav". Or in this case
> it might be better to go to the website to be
> sure and have the latest copy.
>
> http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/software/WebNavigator.html
Well yes of course if he knows 'something usefull' about the
fileID, he'd search for that. But in a worse case one only knows
something about the file contents.
BTW is 'WebNavigator' usefull for local files ?
It sounds like being intended for inet searching ?
I don't want to spend half a day installing another package that
doesn't do what I need. The collecting and moving of all files
[copy & delete] to the appropriate partitions takes effort/time.
Thanks.
== Chris Glur.
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