Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Match Selected

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:36:18 -0500
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:32:54PM -0500, Ed Warnicke wrote:
> Is this purchance related to the fact that when I attempt to 
> filter based upon a subselection of a tag (like 'mgcp.endpoint[0:3] ==
> "eaw" ') I get a parse error  while if I filter based the hex value 
> of a subselection of a tag ( like 'mgcp.req.endpoint[0:3] == 65:61:77',
> 65:61:77 being the hex representation of the ascii string "eaw") 
> I get correct matches?
> 
> Ed

That's right. The FT_STRING support in the display filter code
is really minimal.

--gilbert