Return argument for ida 9 ida_bytes.bin_search are not as documented

IDA General Support
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The documentation says this should be the matching address if the search is successful, otherwise ida_idaapi.BADADDR. But for some reason when I call this, it returns a tuple.

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Is this a bug? It looks like the first tuple value is the hit address, no idea what the second value is. Any information to clear this up would be appreciated.

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Hi,

The second value is the index of the matched pattern in the binpat vector. We’ll try to improve the documentation.
BTW, depending on your use case, find_bytes or find_string might be more suitable.