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rowbearto

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Escape Special Characters for regex in Find dialog not working?
« on: December 07, 2021, 05:27:07 PM »
In the BigFind dialog, if I check the box to use Perl regular expressions and I put an entry into the "Search for" that has special characters for a regex (such as /), then when I do "Escape Special Characters" they are not getting escaped.

I'm using 26.0.0.6 linux 64, using Clark's build from here: https://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,18611.msg73734.html#msg73734
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Re: Escape Special Characters for regex in Find dialog not working?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2021, 06:05:44 PM »
Forward slash doesn't need to be escaped. Are there some other regex special characters there?
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Re: Escape Special Characters for regex in Find dialog not working?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2021, 06:27:06 PM »
Ah yes you are right, / doesn't need to be escaped. I was trying to use it for escaping something to go into a sed command line, but that isn't appropriate here.

I tried + and . and SE does indeed escape those.
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