Yes, I even tried that! But luckily no result; it would have been pretty weird if that had worked ;)
> On 21 Dec 2018, at 23:37, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > wrote: > > Rob, > > Although it *shouldn’t* work right, did you happen to try just using ’S’ > without the leading ‘\’ and letting GC insert it? Is the result ‘\S’ as > intended? > > Certainly, that would be a bug, but you might still get the result you want. > (at least for that narrow case) > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Rob Laan <rob.l...@chello.nl> wrote: >> >> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
