Author Topic: dot character not escaped when "Escape Special Characters"  (Read 2065 times)

rowbearto

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dot character not escaped when "Escape Special Characters"
« on: October 09, 2018, 02:23:37 AM »
In BigFind, choose a Regular Expression (Perl) search. Type "." (dot) character in "Search For". Then choose the right arrow next to "Search for" and click on "Escape Special Characters".

The dot is not getting escaped.

Beta5, Linux x64, Centos 7.2

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Re: dot character not escaped when "Escape Special Characters"
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2018, 01:51:39 PM »
Reproduced. Looks like it's doing escaping but maybe for the wrong syntax.

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Re: dot character not escaped when "Escape Special Characters"
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2018, 02:00:27 PM »
_escape_re_chars() re_chars char-set variables missing '.'.  Goofed up when we added Vim regex syntax support to it.

Fixed for RC1