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Q57932: Incorrect Message from "searchall" with Regular Expressions

Article: Q57932
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.02   | 1.02
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | M MEP buglist1.02 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 23-JAN-1990

The Microsoft Editor searchall function (that is, SHIFT+F6) may return
the following invalid error message when using regular expressions:

   +'pattern' not found

'pattern' is the actual regular expression for which the search was
requested.

In this situation, searchall still finds all occurrences of the search
pattern correctly -- only the message is incorrect.

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