File search problem

2005-11-30T22:29:07-04:00

2 questions:
- why do you use lrange? it looks pointless in your script, since it a) uses a list operation on a string and b) ignores the first entry. esspially the functionality b) could be the cause of your "little problem" .
- why do you escape the *? there is no need to . Another tip... if files always have 1 "whitespace" character, you might want to use ? instead of * depending on the exactness the result should be .

Statistics: Posted by De Kus — Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:29 pm

File search problem

2005-11-30T11:40:39-04:00

I am writing a script that is supposed to search trough a file on the server and check if a string given by the user exists in it, if so, it should output it. So far, with the help of greenbear on IRC I got this:

Code:

set query [lrange $text 1 end]set query [string map {" " "\*"} $query]set srcdb [open users.txt r]set data [read -nonewline $srcdb]close $srcdbset lines [split $data "\n"]foreach line $lines { if {[string match -nocase "*$query*" $line]} { putmsg $chan $line } else { }}

However it does not output any results even if I try it with a query I'm 100% sure is in the database. What am I missing here ?

Statistics: Posted by iNFERiON — Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:40 am

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File search problem

File search problem