Hi David, Thanks. Yes, I know about escaping special characters in regex. But I do not want to escape anything. And I don’t want to search for a \.
\S is a regular regex content, matching any non white space character (a so called generic character type); but the expression editor changes my \S to \\S in the resulting regular expression. So, instead of matching any non white space character (with \S), the regular expression tries to match a \ (the escaped \ in the expression) followed by an S; clearly not my intention. I don’t think it is intentional that the editor escapes my \, I suspect it is a bug. But I’ll see if anyone here can yet shed some light on this. Regards, Rob > On 21 Dec 2018, at 21:41, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Rob, > > The "\" in Regex expressions is used as an escape character for the > characters that are used as commands in Regex expressions to denote that > the character following it is not to be interpreted as a command but to be > interpreted literally. Hence if you wish to search for a "\" which is a > command character you have to precede it with another "\" , i.e "\\". The > expression editor is inserting the escape character automatically for you, > > David > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
