Power Find(regex) quote meta characters

[mpawp]

Hi,

The new Power Find with browser and and meta character items for Power Find Pro is awesome. In its documentation I could not find a command for quoting regex meta characters such as \Q … \E or quotemeta. Is there one? I am searching for such a command because the patterns are simple enough, which makes it unnecessary to delve further into Nisus Writer Macro than the search and replace commands available.

Regards,
Martin

[martin]

Hi Martin: yes you can use \Q...\E to escape meta characters in a regex find pattern. That works in both the regular Find panel and Nisus Writer Pro macros.

Here's a quick example Nisus Writer macro:

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$sub = @string<\d+ \w+>
Find All @String<T\w+ \Q$sub\E \w+>, 'E'

That will match the text:

Test \d+ \w+ end

But will not match:

Test 123 word end

[mpawp]

Hi,

Thank you Martin, that does work. I do not know why I did not get that to work. Together with FollowedBy and the other zero-width matches it solves many problems.

Thanks,
Martin