[sword-devel] diatheke search type regex and the dot ?

[Greg Hellings]

$ diatheke -b KJV -s regex -k Abed.nego
Verses containing "Abed.nego"-- none (KJV)

Once I correct the command to include the -k parameter, I also get no
results.

--Greg

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:58 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I was under the impression that the metacharacter *dot* in a regex means
> "any
> single character".
>
> It would seem that for diatheke with *-s regex* this is not the case at
> all.
>
> Example:
>
> diatheke -b KJV -s regex Abed.nego
>
> In Windows command shell, that command line does not find the 15 instances
> of the name *Abed–nego* where the *en dash* (U+2013) is the punctuation
> mark
> in all such names.
>
> What happens in Linux?
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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