[Bug?] FILE_CONTAINS_EVALUATED doesn't recognize regexp

[K4thos]

Not sure if it's a bug or if I didn't understood weidu documentation. This test code:

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ACTION_IF (NOT FILE_CONTAINS_EVALUATED (~GTIMES.IDS~ ~[ %TAB%]ONE_MINUTE[ %TAB%]*$~)) BEGIN
PRINT ~regexp not recognized~
ENDprints the message as if the ONE_MINUTE was not present within GTIMES.IDS. This code:

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ACTION_IF (NOT FILE_CONTAINS_EVALUATED (~GTIMES.IDS~ ~ ONE_MINUTE~)) BEGIN
PRINT ~regexp not recognized~
ENDworks fine (message not printed)

And according to documentation:

FILE_CONTAINS_EVALUATED ( fileName varsRegexp )
First, all WeiDU variables enclosed in %s in varsRegexp and fileName are substituted. The expression is 1 if the resulting regexp occurs in fileName and 0 otherwise. If fileName does not exist or has size 0, the result is 0. The comparison ignores case.

[Argent77]

FILE_CONTAINS_EVALUATED doesn't appear to like the end-of-line matcher '$' in regular expressions.

[K4thos]

ah, indeed. I even used something like this at some point to make end of line detectable (or maybe it was the other way around):

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REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~%WNL%~ ~%LNL%~Completely forgot about it. Thanks.

So, Wisp, any chance to make $ special character to work with both %LNL% and %WNL%? It's not really crucial since my usage of $ in code was excessive either way but maybe worth considering if it's not much of work,

[Mike1072]

From earlier discussions, I think the regexp matching is entirely handled by OCaml.  In their flavour of regexp, the $ symbol matches before LF but not before CR.

[K4thos]

From earlier discussions, I think the regexp matching is entirely handled by OCaml.  In their flavour of regexp, the $ symbol matches before LF but not before CR.

Damn, it was me who started that discussion like a year ago with almost the exact same question. How on earth I forgot about it (and made regression in EET due to it) is beyond me