You might get some insight from the Description section of https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Perl-compatible-regular-expressions.html <https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Perl-compatible-regular-expressions.html>, in particular the bit about UTF8.
Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 22, 2018, at 7:11 AM, Rob Laan <rob.l...@chello.nl> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Well, I have to take it all back. Using \S etc.does work in this situation. > The problem is only with matching the \xHH values. > > I still don’t understand why it won’t match with the \xHH values, but I have > some clues that I will look into. > > I also tested the issue of the bug you referred too. I now understand that > that is a different issue; non of the generic character types I tested worked > there. > > Regards, > > Rob > > >> On 22 Dec 2018, at 05:42, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Rob Laan <rob.l...@chello.nl >>> <mailto:rob.l...@chello.nl>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the function Import Bills & Invoices, there is the option to use a >>> custom regular expression to match the import file to the GnuCash fields. >>> In that regular expression, I want to use regex generic character types >>> (e.g. \S for non white space characters), and hex codes (\xHH). >>> >>> But when I enter e.g. \S in the dialog box, it is converted to \\S in the >>> resulting regular expression (checked that in the debugger), bungling up >>> the matching process. >>> >>> Is this a bug? Or is there some other way to enter \S, \xHH etc. in the >>> custom regular expression? >>> >>> Using GnuCash maint on macOS High Sierra. >> >> Sounds like a variant on https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631876 >> <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631876>. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
