The Old New Thing

Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?

November 28, 2012 Nov 28, 2012 11/28/12

Raymond Chen

Jonathan wonders why we have both and , and furthermore, why the two programs have unrelated features. The program supports UTF-16, which doesn't; on the other hand, the program supports regular expressions, which does not. The reason why their feature sets are unrelated is that the two programs are unrelated. The program came first. ...