Awesome, thanks. I had tried that but messed up the search-replace syntax,
I didn't realize the angle brackets would replace the square brackets and
was using both:
[search-replace:i:regexp[],[$2, $1]]
Much appreciated.
On Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 3:42:06 AM UTC-4 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 12:24:28 AM UTC-7 john@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using a macro and search-replace to convert a list of FirstName
> LastName to LastName, FirstName. It works fine with the shortcut class \w,
> but if I replace that with [a-zA-Z0-9_] it breaks, when logically those
>
> It works fine with the shortcut class \w, but if I replace that with
> [a-zA-Z0-9_] it breaks, when logically those should be the same.
You cannot have the characters [ and ] inside a literal operand to a filter
operator.
The workaround is to define the regular expression as a variable a
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