Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Appending data to a proto_item

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:51 -0700
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:54:47PM +0200, Biot Olivier wrote:
> Is it normal that when appending text to a proto_item linked to an header
> field, this extra text cannot be searched for in a display filter expression
> that applies to this header field?

Yes.  A display filter expression that applies to fields checks the
value of the field, not the displayed text of the item. 
"proto_item_append_text()" affects the latter, not the former.