OpenFOAM v1806 - cfMesh - Unable to use regular expressions to find and rename / refine patches

Hello @mark,
There is a problem with cfMesh... A change that you made a couple of months ago breaks the capability of cfMesh to find patches using regular expressions.

That was the reason why I had used stringListOps.H and findStrings in the first place rather than a plain "pick out of a list" option which is what findIndices from listOps.H does (I was the one who put this functionality into cfMesh).

Could you kindly change this back to the original implementation so that regular expressions can be used again?

Thank you.

Regards,
Philippose

Hi again @mark The issue popped up in the following commit: 0cb890e0

The issue is in the polyMeshGenFaces.C file. If you do a "blame" for this file, you will see the changes.

Regards,
Philippose

assigned to @mark

added bug label

changed title from [BUG] OpenFOAM v1806 - cfMesh - Unable to use regular expressions to find and rename / refine patches to OpenFOAM v1806 - cfMesh - Unable to use regular expressions to find and rename / refine patches

mentioned in commit bd2a5cc9

Hi @philippose - I adjusted your commit to make it a revert, and added some additional comment (so that we all remember in the future what happened and why).

Please verify that the merged result resolves the issue and we can have a good feeling going into the 1812 release.

/mark

Hello @mark, I have pulled the latest develop branch after you merged the merge request in, and it compiles without any issues.

Patch names specified using regular expressions are interpreted as expected.

I think we can run with these changes and close this isse.

Regards, Philippose

Thank you. Will close out with the 1812 release.

closed