Hi All

I had phun finding some things in RegExp. I found [] was the only way to hunt down the difficult ones.

(as described in UE search help).
to find . use [.]
to find , use [,]
to find ? use [?]

eg. to find + use [+]

If you really have problems, then switch to hex and replace the character that way and switch back to ascii.

I needed it for getting filenames (with single dot separator) out of HTML links:
eg: ht2p:\\www.mysite.com/This-Is_A-Complicated.html

so my search was:
Find RegExp "/^([-0-9a-z_]+[.]html^)"
Replace All "/^p^t^1^p"

Tutorial: How it works for beginners:
Find the following search string and store it temporarily as variable "1"
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Find RegExp "/^([-0-9a-z_]+[.]html^)"
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/ = web directory path delimiter for link
^( = The start of selecting the search expression as variable "1"
[-0-9a-z_] = find any characters "hyphen or 0 to 9 or a to z or underscore" (the position of the hyphen is important - doesn't work in any position)
+ = Find one or many of the previous characters (the type decrbed in the square boxes)
[.] = Find the dot separator
html = is the last four characters of our search
^) = the end of selecting variable "1"

Then replace what it found above with
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Replace All "/^p^t^1^p"
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/ = replace the slash back
^p = follow it with a paragraph marker
^t = then with a tab character
^1 = then put the variable "1" back (this is the filename)
^p = follow it with a paragraph marker

eg: ht2p:\\www.mysite.com/This-Is_A-Complicated.html

becomes:
ht2p:\\www.mysite.com/{paragraph character}
{tab character}This-Is_A-Complicated.html{paragraph character}


(and Yep, I mispelt ht2p:\\www - I had to, otherwise it showed up as a link and you couldn't see the underscore)


Regards
Ing. Stephen Hatton