Doesn't seem like it should be treated as an escape character since it's in quotes, as you say. I'd enter a QCC report about it and see what the LCB team have to say.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:55 PM Stephen MacLean <smacl...@madmansoft.com> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Thanks for responding, I’m not one either and it works fine with no issues > when run directly in LC. > > Removing the “\” does cure the error, but of course doesn’t work any more. > > So the question I guess is two fold: 1) Why is that considered an escape > character when it is enclosed in quotes and 2) How do you escape it? > > Sorry, trying to learn LCB. Documentation is hard to find, at least for > me. The dictionary for LCB is very light at the moment. > > Thanks, > > Steve MacLean > > > On Feb 23, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: > > > > I'm not much of a regex guy, but what happens if you remove the > backslash after {1,63} ? I assume something will probably stop working, > but that's the only \ in the string. > > > > Phil Davis > > > > > > > > On 2/23/16 1:59 PM, Stephen MacLean wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Working to build a library extension and I’m getting an error on this > line when I go to test it in LCB: > >> > >> put "^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@(?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$" > into tRegex > >> > >> The error is: > >> > >> illegal escape in string '^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@ > (?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$’ > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Steve MacLean > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > -- > > Phil Davis > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode