Re: [Axiom-developer] gold/src/hyper/search.pamphlet

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> > in gold/src/hyper/search.pamphlet
> > {
> >     a[n] = $0;
> >     n=n+1;
> >         j=split($0,b,"{");
> >         m=m+substr(b[j],1,length(b[j])-1);
> > }
> > 
> > but in sandbox it reads: 
> > {
> >     a[n] = $0;
> >     n=n+1;
> >         j=split($0,b,"{");
> >         if (j >= 2)
> >           m=m+substr(b[2],1,length(b[2])-1);
> > }
> > 
> > i don't understand this change. 
> > can someone explain it?
> >  
> 
> Gold code is wrong.  This is part of 'presea' which is is run on output
> of 'hthits'.  'hthits' outputs looks like:
> 
> \newsearchresultentry{1}{Asp24 Example Code}{Asp24ExampleCode}
> \newsearchresultentry{1}{Asp27 Example Code}{Asp27ExampleCode}
> ....
> 
> 
> after splitting on "{" the first field is '\newsearchresultentry' and
> the second is number of occurences of search term in the page.  The
> test for 'j >= 2' is just to tolerate garbage.  'presea' is supposed
> to count the number of matches and put it in the header for search
> results.  Gold version reported no matches in the header.
> 
> You may need other fixes to actually see search results (and notice
> the problem).

ah. perhaps it might be worthwhile adding this bit of wisdom to the
documentation for the change.

quite curious that this code never worked and nobody noticed.

t