escaping chars for the replaceText function

[danielrr]

I want to strip all the characters "()/\=" from any string passed to the replaceText function, but if I pass the list of the offending characters escaping the regex reserved chars using "\", the string remains unchanged:

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put replaceText("KAI\", "\\\/\(\)=", "")
KAI\

What I'm doing wrong?

[LiveCode_Panos]

Hi danielrr,

Try adding

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[]

around the characters you want to match. Omitting the [] means that it will try to match the exact sequence of

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\/()=

, rather than any of these characters.

This works for me:

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put replaceText("KAI\", "[\\\/\(\)=]", "")

Regards,
Panos
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[danielrr]

Thanks Panos