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.l...@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 <davidcous...@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 >> >> >> >> ----- >> David Cousens >> -- >> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.