Olivier Pasquet

"query" for 'text' gives a 1 instead of 0 when 'text' is empty...

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It looks like this behavior is a result of simply counting the number of CRs (edit: and adding 1?).

So, a trailing CR over-reports the count by 1.

It was tricky to test because some text editors add a trailing CR, whether you wanted it or not. But I could confirm that three-line text file without a trailing CR reports 3 lines, but with a trailing CR reports 4.

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... which is extra fun because you need the [text] left outlet to go conditionally to either the line-count adjustment or the real target (something that always seems awkward in patchers, but which is transparent in programming languages where multiple references to the same stateful object are commonplace).

... which is extra fun because you need the [text] left outlet to go conditionally to either the line-count adjustment or the real target (something that always seems awkward in patchers, but which is transparent in programming languages where multiple references to the same stateful object are commonplace).

hjh

text "query" method bug