Question

I am trying to search for hidden variables set within a page but do not get a result. What am doing wrong.

<!--
   * Set MYVAR = OPEN
-->

on another page...
%SEARCH{"^   * MYVAR = OPEN" scope="text" regex="on"}%

Environment

-- BrianTibbels - 31 Mar 2008

Answer

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The regex looks OK except that the * needs to be escaped. It might be safer to search for whitespace since older TWiki versions saved bullets with a leading tab instead of three spaces. The ^ anchor does not work for some reason. Below is an example that works.

Search on this topic:
%SEARCH{ "[ \t]+\* MYVAR = OPEN" scope="text" topic="Search*" regex="on" nonoise="on" format="found <nop>$topic" }%

Resulting in:
found SearchWithinHTMLComments

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Apr 2008

Many thanks Peter - spot on.

-- BrianTibbels - 02 Apr 2008