On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:13, Greg Morris wrote: > Please consider this new addition. Many times I have been asked why > Ethereal cannot search the hex data for a pattern of characters or hex > values. I spent a little time adding this new functionality. > > Attached is an rtf document showing this new capability. > > Also attached are the diffs. > >
Neat. BTW, I'm also adding this functionality, but to the display filter syntax, so in the future one would be able to do this: frame contains "gmorris_nts_client" or frame contains ff:ff:ff:ff:b0;fa I'm currently re-working my patch after I received some good ideas from ethereal-dev. Instead of two check boxes, maybe use a radio button group that also as "display filter" in it, so that the user can be certain whether to type a display filter, a hex sequence, or an ascii sequence. Hmm. You could add EBCDIC so that users could search for text in SNA packets. I need to add something to the dfilter syntax to allow for that too. --gilbert
