Q57705: Mgrep Can Skip Occurrences of Pattern When Using Mgreplist

Article: Q57705
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.02   | 1.02
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | buglist1.02 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 16-JAN-1990

"Mgrep" may find every other occurrence of a search string when used
to search a list of input files defined my the "mgreplist" macro.

Mgrep searches all files defined by the mgreplist macro, then writes
the location of a match to the <compile> pseudo file. When using
either regular expression search patterns or standard search strings,
mgrep may post every other occurrence of the matched string to the
<compile> pseudo file. This also causes SHIFT+F3 to display every
other match in the file being searched.

To see the problem, set the mgreplist:="test.dat" where TEST.DAT
contains the following:

   #include1
   #include2
   #include3
   #include4
   #include5
   #include6
   #include7
   #include8
   #include9
   #include10
   #include11
   #include12

Invoke the mgrep search on the string "include" and then press
SHIFT+F3 to view the next match. You will see that only every other
occurrence of "include" is found. Also, if you view the <compile>
pseudo file it will only contain a list every other occurrence of
"include".

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