Winmerge 2011 Linefilter doesn't work

[urbantamas]

It seems that line filter doesn't work for a while in Winmerge 2011. I'm installe the latest release, which is 0.2011.211.182.

I've some Oracle APEX application export files (PL/SQL) where I want to filter out those lines which contains a "=>wwv_flow_api.id(xxx)" call anywhere in the current file. xxx always means an integer number.

I set a regular expression in the Tools|Filters|Linefilter and enabled it also. But after refreshing the compare nothing has changed at all. If I select this kind of line in the compare window and also select the referenced line filter the test case will underscore the whole line with green color (which should means the regexp search was success?)

I appreciate some help in this case. Thanks.

[datadiode]

I cannot confirm this issue. Regexp "=>wwv_flow_api.id(\d+)" seems to yield expected results.
Since it might depend on settings, can you share the outcome of Help → Configuration?

[urbantamas]

WinMerge configuration log

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Version information:
WinMerge.exe: 0.2011.211.182
Build config: NDEBUG _WIN64 _MSC_FULL_VER=160040219 _MSC_BUILD=1
Command Line: none
Windows: Windows 10 Pro (BuildLab: 19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Wine: N/A

~COMCTL32.dll 10.0.19041.1110 dllversion=6.16 dllbuild=10586
~shlwapi.dll 10.0.19041.1023 dllversion=10.0 dllbuild=10586
MergeLang.dll 0.2011.211.182
ShellExtensionU.dll 0.2011.211.182
ShellExtensionX64.dll 0.2011.211.182
hekseditU.dll 0.10909.2021 path=Frhed\hekseditU.dll
WinIMergeLib.dll 1.0.25 path=WinIMerge\WinIMergeLib.dll
SQLiteCompare.exe 3.1.0-datadiode-14-g6cd7810 path=SQLiteCompare\bin\SQLiteCompare.exe
ReoGridCompare.exe 3.0.0-datadiode-75-g93465d8 path=ReoGridCompare\bin\ReoGridCompare.exe
ToxyExtract.exe 1.6.0-datadiode-54-g2572b6e path=ToxyExtract\bin\ToxyExtract.exe
doc2x.exe 1.0.0-datadiode-21-g9dd6b53 path=B2XTranslator\bin\doc2x.exe
OdfConverter.exe 1.0.0-datadiode-21-g9dd6b53 path=B2XTranslator\bin\OdfConverter.exe
ppt2x.exe 1.0.0-datadiode-21-g9dd6b53 path=B2XTranslator\bin\ppt2x.exe
xls2x.exe 1.0.0-datadiode-21-g9dd6b53 path=B2XTranslator\bin\xls2x.exe
zlibwapi.dll 1.2.11 path=B2XTranslator\bin\x86\zlibwapi.dll
zlibwapi.dll 1.2.11 path=B2XTranslator\bin\x64\zlibwapi.dll
7z.dll 19.0.0 path=Merge7z\7z.dll
Merge7z1900U.dll 19.0.0 dllversion=2.2 dllbuild=34 path=Merge7z\Merge7z1900U.dll

WinMerge configuration:
Compare settings:
Ignore blank lines: Yes
Ignore case: No
Ignore carriage return differences: Yes
Whitespace compare: Ignore all
Detect moved blocks: Yes
Compare method: 0
Stop after first diff: No

Other settings:
Automatic rescan: No
Simple EOL: Yes
Automatic scroll to 1st difference: No
Backup original file: Yes
Enable archive file support: Yes
Detect archive type from file signature: No

Folder compare:
Identical files: No
Different files: Yes
Left Unique files: Yes
Right Unique files: Yes
Binary files: Yes
Skipped files: No
Tree-mode enabled: No

File compare:
Preserve filetimes: No
Match similar lines: Yes
MatchSimilarLinesMax: 30

Editor settings:
View Whitespace: No
Merge Mode enabled: No
Show linenumbers: Yes
Wrap lines: No
Syntax Highlight: Yes
Tab size: 4
Insert tabs: No

Font:
Font facename: Courier New
Font charset: 238 (East Europe)

System settings:
codepage settings:
ANSI codepage: 1250
OEM codepage: 1250
Locale (Thread):
Def ANSI codepage: 1250
Def OEM codepage: 852
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Language code: 040e
ISO Language code: hu
Locale (User):
Def ANSI codepage: 1250
Def OEM codepage: 852
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Language code: 040e
ISO Language code: hu
Locale (System):
Def ANSI codepage: 1250
Def OEM codepage: 852
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Language code: 040e
ISO Language code: hu
Detect codepage automatically for RC and HTML files: Yes
unicoder codepage: 1250

[urbantamas]

[datadiode]

From your screenshot it occurs to me that line filters might be disabled altogether, as per the option at the top of the Filters dialog:

[urbantamas]

no, it isn't disabled.
I tried with different type of regular expressions that's why the line filter differs on the screenshots.

[datadiode]

Can you share the involved files?
Does the situation change when you uncheck the other line filters?

[urbantamas]

Yes, when I cleared a couple of line filter options, the comparison ignored the id value differences between the rows what contains the "wwv_flow_api.id()" reference

page_00202_SIDEA.sql.txt
page_00202_SIDEB.sql.txt
.

[urbantamas]

do you have any update for this issue? thanks.

[urbantamas]

Can you give me some instructions how to solve this issue?

[datadiode]

Can you share your LineFilters.ini?
Although I lost focus on this project, I'd like to understand and fix the bug.

[urbantamas]

Where are the exact locations of the configuration files? The location used under Option|System|Supplement Folder points to my My Documents\Winmerge folder. But the LineFilters.ini does not contain my custom line filters I set.

[urbantamas]

LineFilters másolata.ini.txt

[datadiode]

Oops, I didn't remember that line filters entered through GUI are stored in the Windows registry.
Can you export them to a file?

[urbantamas]

winmerge.2011.linefilters.reg.txt

[datadiode]

(Un)fortunately, the 0.2011.211.182 build is not among released ones, and meanwhile disappeared from AppVeyor.
This is what I get with your exact set of line filters, using this fresh build from the latest commit:

I'm not aware of a relevant change since 0.2011.211.182 though, so I still cannot explain the effect you are seeing.