Zugg Software :: View topic - [3.22]BUG?: Find/Replace Regex syntax not working

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:36 am

I could be wrong about this, and I've never seen it come up until I decided to help someone else who would need to use this feature.

Apparently, if you do:

Find: (\w+)

it will not find it (the parentheses break it). This is a bit heartbreaking because it takes out the possibility of doing something like:

Find: #VAR @(\w+)
Replace: #VAR @{\1}

like many external editors can do. Was this intended? Is this a bug? Was it overlooked? Can it be added? Thanks!

Charneus

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:51 am

Hmm, the behavior is confirmed. Zugg will have to determine if it's a bug because this will do what you want.

Find: #VAR @\(\w+\)
Replace: #VAR @{\1}

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:13 pm

Nothing I can do about this one, sorry. That's the find/replace regex code within the Scintilla editor library. It isn't code that I can access (it's in the DLL). But remember that () in a regular expression are normally reserved for saving subpatterns so Tech is correct that if you want to match () characters verbatim then you need to escape them with the \ character just like in any other regular expression.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:42 pm

Zugg I don't think he was trying to match the verbatim character. It's seems that to match the sub-pattern you need to escape the parentheses. This is more or less sorted though.