Search for a string ignoring comments

[Roland Smith]

Is it possible to search for a string and have it ignore hits that are 'commented out' according to the comment rules of the current language?

If not, could there be a new search flag be added that would tell SCI_SEARCHINTARGET to ignore comments?

Thanks

[Neil Hodgson]

Roland Smith:

> Is it possible to search for a string and have it ignore hits that are 'commented out' according to the comment rules of the current language?

You can filter search hits in your application code.

> If not, could there be a new search flag be added that would tell SCI_SEARCHINTARGET to ignore comments?

There are multiple aspects to this which would have to be defined: which styles are to be ignored; whether text that matches partly in comment and partly out are hits; whether a comment should be regarded as breaking any match or if a match can go over an ignored comment (for example, a regex that matches function parameters could reasonably include ignored comment text); and I’m sure there are others.

Neil