Changeset 2777 in josm for trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/actions/search/SearchAction.java

Timestamp:

2010-01-08T17:59:54+01:00 (14 years ago)

Author:

mjulius

Message:

fixes #2473 - Search does not work when searching for value containing literal quote
Quotes within quoted strings can now be escaped with backslash.

File:

• trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/actions/search/SearchAction.java (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/actions/search/SearchAction.java

@@ -138 +138 @@
                     + "<li>"+tr("<b>parent <i>expr</i></b> - all parents of objects matching the expression")+"</li>"
                     + "<li>"+tr("Use <b>|</b> or <b>OR</b> to combine with logical or")+"</li>"
-                    + "<li>"+tr("Use <b>\"</b> to quote operators (e.g. if key contains :)")+"</li>"
+                    + "<li>"+tr("Use <b>\"</b> to quote operators (e.g. if key contains <b>:</b>)") + "<br/>"
+                    + tr("Within quoted strings the <b>\"</b> and <b>\\</b> characters need to be escaped by a preceding <b>\\</b> (e.g. <b>\\\"</b> and <b>\\\\</b>).")+"</li>"
                     + "<li>"+tr("Use <b>(</b> and <b>)</b> to group expressions")+"</li>"
                     + "</ul></html>");