So it adds an ‘\’ escape to ‘\S’ but not to ’S’? — weird. Even if it was a bug or intentional to add an ‘\’, I’d think it would do it to all expressions as I can’t see any helpful purpose to adding it when you’ve already specified it.
Did you file a bug report? Regards, Adrien > On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Rob Laan <rob.l...@chello.nl> wrote: > > 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.
