TextCrawler cannot find a name

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:19 pm

I've got multiple names in several .asp pages. I can successfully find all names except for diane. This is very puzzling. Is this name left out of searches for some odd reason??

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:25 pm

Of course, it is... No, just kidding.

Perhaps you should open a file you know Diane is in into a text editor or perhaps even a hex editor to check how it is actually being "spelled". There may be character codes instead of actual characters in there.

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:26 pm

An alternative may be to perform a search for [diane]{5} to get an idea about how it _may_ be spelled.

An other way is to actually break up the name into separate searches for dia and ane, for instance.

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:29 pm

One more: open one of those files into the Regular Expression Tester form of Text Crawler and search for diane.

If you can't find it, try to copy it from the actual contents and see if it is found, then.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:42 pm

Thanks for the tips. It was user error on my part. All of the diane instances had been deleted from the file in the first place.

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:30 pm

_^^_
Cool...
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