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palcal

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Posted: 09:07pm 28 Mar 2019

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While working on my other problem I was using MMedit 'SEARCH'. I was searching for a string variable P$ and although it was there it was not found. The search would find P but not P$, I then searched for $ and it will not find this character.

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busa
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Posted: 10:43pm 28 Mar 2019

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@palcal,
Just tried the search function on my copy of MMedit searching for P$ and $. Both worked flawlessly. Using version 3.8.1 of MMedit on W10.
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palcal

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Posted: 11:29pm 28 Mar 2019

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yeh, I thought it was strange, I will reinstall MMedit. Everything I touch at the moment does not work.

edit..... just tried it on my laptop and as you say it works OK.Edited by palcal 2019-03-30

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BrianP
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Posted: 12:05am 29 Mar 2019

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This may be a bug in Win10 - I've noticed instances of the Windows search not showing something that is definitely there. Perhaps Win 10 version specific?

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palcal

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Posted: 01:28am 29 Mar 2019

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I was using Win7, I reinstalled MMedit (V3.7) and it is working OK.?????

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TassyJim

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Posted: 02:02am 29 Mar 2019

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That was an interesting problem!
I can't think of any way for it to happen, however, if you have been copy and paste from PDFs or Word documents, you might have been caught with a strange character which looks like $ but is actually some character encoded in Unicode.

I still get caught pasting from the Windows 10 calculator.

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palcal

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Posted: 02:17am 29 Mar 2019

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I just copy/paste from one MMedit file to another.
Funny thing is since reinstalling MMedit all the problems I was having, as set out in my other recent post, seem to have disappeared. Fingers crossed.

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Volhout
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Posted: 10:29am 29 Mar 2019

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Hi Pascal,

Glad it worked for you.
I've seen similar things when I had language or keyboard settings wrong.
My native language is Dutch, use a PC with english keyboard (pound sign), so had language and keyboard set to UK English. But had to switch language to US English.

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tomxp411
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Posted: 02:33am 04 Apr 2019

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It does it to me, too. I was refactoring some BASIC 2 code to work on the Maximite, and I was trying to replace something like "L$" with "Location$".

On one computer, Find wouldn't find anything with a $ when I had "Whole Word" checked... but on my other system, it's not having that problem. Both are Windows 10, so I'm a bit confused, too.

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