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Re: PCBNew Find and "match words"

 

personally I'd like  being able to use full regular expressions, so that
the new user can use the asterisk, more advanced users can use more complex
expressions  to better filter the results.

Il Ven 26 Lug 2019 20:45 Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> Another way to solve this is the Google approach:  match internal
> substrings unless you put the search term in "quotes" in which case only
> match complete words.
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:43 PM Kliment (Future Bits) <kliment@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> One issue I can think of offhand is that searching for "R2" would find
>> "R21" and searching for "1uF" would match "0.1uF", both of which would
>> be annoying. Maybe an "allow partial matches" checkbox?
>>
>> On 26.07.19 20:39, Jeff Young wrote:
>> > PCBNew’s current Find does a match against the whole string.  I think
>> it would be more intuitive with a ‘*’ in front and back of the search
>> string (so that it finds partial matches).
>> >
>> > Any other opinions?
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