Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Suggestion for small change to display filter syntax

[Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graeme Hewson wrote:

> The syntax for slices in display filters currently includes:
>
>     [i:]     start_offset = i, end_offset = end_of_field
>
> I propose we also allow [i-] to mean the same thing.  ISTM this is more 
> natural, since [i:j] means j is a length, while [i-j] means j is an 
> offset, so [i-] would be a better fit to the documentation.

No replies to this, but I attach a patch to do it anyway.  I had some 
trouble remembering if I should use [i:] or [i-] for "a slice starting 
at offset i and ending at the end of the field".  Now either will work.


Graeme

Attachment: ethereal-filter.pod.template.patch.gz
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