Hi Richard,
I had a look at this one. It's very weird, but the StringReplacer and
StringPairReplacer seem to use different syntax, and neither of them
use proper string encoding.
Grant is correct that the escape character is a \ - but like you say
it doesn't appear to work.
Anyway, the following are what I discovered...
StringReplacer - use Regular Expressions = No
Use: can(
StringReplacer - use Regular Expressions = Yes
Use: can\\( [ie use double escape characters]
StringPairReplacer
Use: "can(" [ie put quotes around it]
Hope this helps. Basically, if you use the StringPairReplacer just put
quotes around the source value and it seems to work OK.
Regards,
Mark
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--- In [email protected], "Richard Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for reply Grant,
>
> The example you quote from the help screen does not help. It seems that
> it is not possible to escape a "(" with "\(" as the brackets are
> interpreted before the escape character or perhaps the escape character
> only works with a particular range of characters that does not include
> brackets.
>
> However I can achieve the same ends by using StringReplacer with
> Text to find = can( and
> Replacement text = nothing
>
> I wanted to do multiple replacements wich is why I was trying to use
> StringPairReplacer. I can use a chain of StringReplacer's to do the
> multiple replacements and can in fact combine them into a custom
> transform.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard Wilkinson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Richard Wilkinson
> Sent: 19 June 2007 17:17
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [fme] Help with StringPairReplacer
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having dificulty in deleting a character(s) with
> stringpairreplacer. Is this possible?
>
> How can I do the following:
>
> Input string can(this be done output string this
> be done
>
>
> The replacement pair can X will produce X(this be done
> But the pair can( X produces an error
> Unbalanced parenthesis
>
> I cannot figure how to drop character(s) or escape special
> characters eg (
>
> Can anyone give me a clue, please.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard Wilkinson
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