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From: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: grep XFCN and option characters
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Date: 4 May 90 20:39:48 GMT
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Reply-To: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
Organization: UC Santa Cruz; Division of Social Sciences
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Summery: It works for me

I just tested my grep xfcn on fields with option characters.  I was
able to:

	o	Type option characters into a field:

		ex:	*** test ***

		(Where "*"s represent option characters)

	o	Match lines that contain option characters

		ex:	grep("test",bg fld info) returned "*** test ***"

	o	Match lines using option characters in the search string.

		ex:	grep("***",bg fld info) returned "*** test ***"

If this test didn't work for you, I don't know what to say.  What version
of grep are you using?  I'm up to version 3.1.  You can find out what
version you have by typing:

	line 2 of grep()

Into the message box.  (All of my XFCNs return usage and version information
if called without parameters.)

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