Cheat Engine

[kuukuuu]

I found a strange problem, I can't use instruction:find() to search for instructions that use [] addressing as source operands, such as:

mov eax,[esp+14]
call dword ptr[eax*8+005DD374]
jmp dword ptr[ebx*4+4CEE6C]

Even if I use:

instruction:find('.')~=nil

I can't make this kind of instruction highlight.
other instructions like:

mov [esp+20],eax

and others are fine.
But using a register value as a search criterion, like EBX == 0x0, can highlight all instructions.
emmm...Is this a bug?

[Dark Byte]

as you mentioned in your previous post: you should have spend the time looking into lua

[ is a special in lua. You need to add a % in front of them so %[

[kuukuuu]

I did catch up on a little LUA,So I also tried instruction:find('%[')~=nil
However, it can only highlight instructions like mov [esi+00d27714],edi , while mov edi,[esi+00d27714] cannot be highlighted.
Is there a bug with the Cheat Engine version I downloaded?（Not the official version，I won't compile from source）

[Dark Byte]

try

[kuukuuu]

It still doesn't work, it will pop up the lua engine window with a lot of 【error:[string ".."]:4: bad argument #2 to 'find" (number expected, got boolean)】output

I downloaded an English version of CE 7.4, but this is still the case


Maybe the Cheat Engine version I'm using is too old... I tried to replace true with 1, but the lua engine still outputs the error messages
Error:[string "..."]:4: malformed pattern (missing ']').

I also tried the condition
instruction:find('%[',1)~=nil
so that the lua engine would not give an error, but i'm back to the old situation , where I can only highlight mov [esi+00d27714],edi and not highlight mov edi,[esi+00d27714] .

[ParkourPenguin]

`plain` is the fourth parameter to string.find. Third if you use `:`

[kuukuuu]

[Dark Byte]

no problem in mine, and technically there should be no reason at all for that

open lua engine : ctrl+alt+L anywhere in CE, and paste in

[kuukuuu]