[GNC] Import Bills & Invoices: how can I use e.g. \S in the custom regular expression for import?

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Fri Dec 21 17:37:52 EST 2018


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.laan at 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 <davidcousens at 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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