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• applies to PB 5.31 x86 and x64
• tested under Windows 8.1 x64

FindString() with the #PB_String_NoCase flag is supposed to be case indifferent.
But it does not work.

Isn't there another parm that's required when you use the nocase flag, thus rendering this incorrect for nocase?

You're using a startposition of 1. No bug.

juror is right. The StartPosition parameter is missing:

I can confirm, incorrect use results in incorrect results :

juror wrote:Isn't there another parm that's required when you use the nocase flag, thus rendering this incorrect for nocase?

You're using a startposition of 1. No bug.

How do you reach this conclusion ?

I'm just relying on the information provided by the Help File.
Example #1 is straight from the Help file, using the default mode.
Example #2 basically the same, using the other mode.

Yes, the examples start searching from position 1.
But isn't that simply the most frequent way the Search function is used ?

Could you elaborate a bit ?

April must be the time of year people uses FindString(). Last April someone posted same thing

OK, now i see.
The way i wrote the second example made the constant the start position.

All right, thank you guys.

But, sometimes, if you want to be really helpful, you need to elaborate a bit more in your explanations.

In short, when using the '#PB_String_NoCase' flag, never forget to specify the starting position !

SUGGESTION : Change the '#PB_String_NoCase' constant to -1 (or some other invalid value) instead of 1, and have the compiler generate an error to force distracted programmers to take notice.

If you don't specify the previous optional parameter, then how can the code know for sure you referring to the secondary parameter? Right now using just #PB_String_CaseSensitive Mode, saying to use 0 for start position.

Oops I was to slow.

Thunder93 wrote:Oops I was to slow.

You should add "Get up earlier and be faster on the draw..." to that long quote about success you use.

heh

Blue wrote:if you want to be really helpful, you need to elaborate a bit more in your explanations.

Those answers were helpful. A couple of years ago, you would've just been told: RTFM!

You don't really see that much anymore, for some reason. Maybe the online world is maturing.

LOL!

Couldn't say that anyways. The code example was from the PB Manual. Therefore the PB Manual was of no help here.