Find RegEx within string

[Jose Adriano Baltieri]

Hi !

I'm trying this simple StrFind, which by the way is an example of the StrFind documentation (attached) and it returns ZERO ...

What's wrong with it, please ?

My version is also attached..

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Grato,

Jose Adriano Baltieri

[Carlo Hogeveen]

In your StrFind() command you reversed the order of the needle and the haystack.

Carlo

[Jose Adriano Baltieri]

Thank U !

So silly ! Ashamed ! 

Thanks again !

On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM Carlo Hogeveen <t...@ecarlo.nl> wrote:

In your StrFind() command you reversed the order of the needle and the haystack.

Carlo

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[Jose Adriano Baltieri]

We need to fix documentation ... The example there is wrong...

On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM Carlo Hogeveen <t...@ecarlo.nl> wrote:

In your StrFind() command you reversed the order of the needle and the haystack.

Carlo

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[knud van eeden]

FYIO

1. I noticed it already long time ago that the order needle/haystack was not working and after some tests concluded:

The correct order should thus be very easy to remember: 

You search for the

 'needle' in the 'haystack'

(and of course you do not search for the 

 'haystack' in the 'needle'

So there you have it.

2. My workaround is to define TSE templates (ending with a dot '.')

e.g.

 the TSE template

  st. 

   expands to 

    StrFind( "<search>", "<contain>", "^biwx$" )

 the TSE template 

  str. 

   expands to 

    StrReplace( "<old>", "<contain>", "<new>", "^biwx<any number>$" ) // tags {} are not possible

and so on...

with friendly greetings

Knud van Eeden

   

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[S.E. Mitchell]

I've made a note to fix the strfind() example.

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