Find a string in a method

Hello,

is there an easy way to find a string in a method starting from a class or
better in a package or bundle? Not references or senders of something.

Holger


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In the browser, select 'Find' -> 'Methods with Strings Matching...'.  Be
sure to use wildcards if you only enter part of the string:
        *click*
-> 'please click the button to continue'
-> 'click to continue'

        click*
-> 'click to continue'

But the scope of that search is the whole system.  To limit the scope to
a package or a class, spawn a browser only on that package or class by
selecting 'Spawn' from the popup menu on the package or class pane, then
perform the find in the spawned browser.

Dave

Diedert, Holger wrote:

Alternatively, you could load RBRegexExtensions, in which case your browser
selection acts as a context for a search, just as it does in Rewrite Editor
and Code Critic.

Cheers!

-Boris

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Stevenson [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 8:51 AM
To: Diedert, Holger
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Find a string in a method

In the browser, select 'Find' -> 'Methods with Strings Matching...'.  Be
sure to use wildcards if you only enter part of the string:
        *click*
-> 'please click the button to continue'
-> 'click to continue'

        click*
-> 'click to continue'

But the scope of that search is the whole system.  To limit the scope to
a package or a class, spawn a browser only on that package or class by
selecting 'Spawn' from the popup menu on the package or class pane, then
perform the find in the spawned browser.

Dave

Diedert, Holger wrote:

"Find > Methods with Strings Matching..." only show methods where a
single literal or message name keyword matches the string you enter. If
you want to search the source of each method as one big string, e.g. for
"ifAbsent: []", select a class and from its popup menu choose Query >
Browse Methods with Source Matching... Much more useful in my opinion,
and a shame that it only works for a single class, not say a package or
bundle.

For searches over all methods, not just those in a given class, you can
also look at the examples in the VisualWorks Launcher > Help > System
Workspace, e.g.

MethodCollector new browseAllSelect:
        [:method | '*ifAbsent: []*' match: method getSource].

(BTW, does anyone know how to restrict a MethodCollector search to a
Package? I can only see #parcel:, and getting from a CompiledMethod to
its package escaped me when I tried last.)

Of course you can also use the Rewrite tab's Search button to search for
code structures, if that's more relevant than actual source code
characters, e.g.

`a == nil

and press Search... This will search the selected package/class/bundle
for anything matching that structure, where "a" is a single variable:
foo == nil. If you want to include things where "a" is the result of a
message send, e.g. self bar == nil, use:

`@a == nil

HTH,
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diedert, Holger [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 21 April 2006 18:26
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Find a string in a method
>
> Hello,
>
> is there an easy way to find a string in a method starting from a
class or

You could get RBSourceCodeSearch
(http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/publicRepository/RBSourceCodeSearch.html)
from Public Store Repository
(http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/CincomSmalltalkWiki/PostgreSQL+Access+Page).

It operates like RBRegexExtensions. Its only advantage is a tick box
that allows ignoring case. Ignoring case, however can also be done in
Regex. The following expression should match "Small", whatever
combination of case is used:

[Ss][Mm][Aa][Ll][Ll]

A nice improvement for RBRegexExtensions would be to have a popup menu
item to transform a search string into being case non-sensitive like
this.

Runar Jordahl

Here's RBRegexExtensions with a checkbox to turn on case insensitive
searches, I can't find my public repository login to publish this, but I've
been using it for a few months now, seems to work just fine ;)

Cheers!

-Boris

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-----Original Message-----
From: Runar Jordahl [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Diedert, Holger
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Find a string in a method

You could get RBSourceCodeSearch
(http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/publicRepository/RBSourceCodeSearch.html)
from Public Store Repository
(http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/CincomSmalltalkWiki/PostgreSQL+Access+Page).

It operates like RBRegexExtensions. Its only advantage is a tick box
that allows ignoring case. Ignoring case, however can also be done in
Regex. The following expression should match "Small", whatever
combination of case is used:

[Ss][Mm][Aa][Ll][Ll]

A nice improvement for RBRegexExtensions would be to have a popup menu
item to transform a search string into being case non-sensitive like
this.

Runar Jordahl