On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:44:20 -0800, "Anthony Bautista Jr." temp3@agosis.com wrote:
... and while 'g' checkbox is checked, only the first 'a' character is highlighted yellow in the 'Target String' box. It would be nice & consistent with the 'Match from 1 to 2', 'Replace' tab for all the 'a' characters to highlight whilst the 'g' (replace globally) checkbox is checked. My thoughts are that the 'g' checkbox should be a global setting that will affect the 'Replace' tab & 'Split' tab. That is, if the 'g' is unchecked, then only the first match is replaced and split (and highlighted, my main concern) consistently, but if checked, then all matches would be hit.
I agree with you that using the 'g' checkbox to toggle highlighting is a good idea and I will probably implement this in a future release. Thanks for the suggestion.
However, I don't think that this checkbox should change the behaviour of 'split' - it's not consistent with Perl. If you only want the first match to split use the 'limit' facility.
Cheers, Edi.