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Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:45 am**

I have a handler that takes regex input from a user and uses it to find text in a field. The user puts a regex in a box. This is the_search. In a handler I have:

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   put "(" & the_search & ")" into the_search
   get matchChunk(fld "text", the_search, the_start, the_end)

The first line puts in the parenthesis so I can find the position of the item found.

The problem arises when the user puts in an invalid regex, e.g. abc [0. I get an execution error at matchChunk. I want something to simply exit the handler if there is erroneous entry. Any ideas pls?

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:32 am**

Hi Kaveh,

can't you just TRY this?

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...
put "(" & the_search & ")" into the_search
try
  get matchChunk(fld "text", the_search, the_start, the_end)
catch errNum
  answer "Idiot!"
end try
...

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:00 pm**

Klaus does it again! Thank you. Yes, I had forgotten "try". One of these days, RTFM again.

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:46 pm**

As an added bonus, if there is indeed an error in matchChunk, I am setting the backgroundcolor of the regex field to a colour, so there is real time feedback that the text is not a valid regular expression.

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