I have been using Gofish for years now and it is much faster than the
Code References utility that comes with VFP.
I don't have any such code but off the top of my head, could you not use
STRTRAN?
ie: cUserInput = strtran(cUserInput,'\','')
Rafael Copquin
El 25/03/2011 10:43, Matt Slay escribió:
> I'm working on a re-write of the VFP app GoFish (search and replace tool).
> One thing I am doing with the new version is that internally I'm using
> Regular Expressions to perform the search rather than the original way it
> worked which was that it just used the $ function to look for a string
> match.
>
> So the user will enter a search string which could very likely contain some
> characters that are reserved characters in regular expressions. (i.e.
> ^[]\{}.,;+-$ etc.) I need to escape those characters in the user input so
> the reg ex search will work properly.
>
> There are lots of way one could iterate over the input string to escape all
> the special characters, and I'm sure there are some trick one must figure
> out to do it correctly, so, before I re-invent the wheel here, I'm asking
> around to see if anyone already has the code to do this.
>
> Anyone?
>
>
>
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