Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)

[David Bateman]

Keith Goodman wrote:

> On 6/6/05, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > I don't know why that happens. At the moment I store all of the data and
> > print it at the end, to allow return args. I suppose I can partially fix
> > the problem wen then is not return args by printing the matchs as they
> > happen and not storing them. To think about..
> >    
>
> I'm not going to ask for more features---I've already gotten ten times
> more than I asked for. But I think it is a good trade to get the
> matches printed as you find them in exchange for the ability to
> capture the output as string matrices. A lookfor search can be long,
> so in 98.7 out of 100 cases (by my ab initio calculations) the user
> would prefer to see the results as they are found over capturing the
> output.
>
>  
Won't get that anyway if they don't have page_screen_output set to 
zero... In any case I implemented this, but won't both sending it to the 
list, but send it off-line to you and John... At this point its pretty 
much ready for integration into octave...

D.

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