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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

Using the following command you will see the backslashes are inserted just about everywhere they should be. The spots that are missing are the |, {, and }.
#SHOW %quoteregex("abc.*?(xyz|)(?:d)[x]{7}\d+")
As it stands now it produces an alternation list, and in the second part the ] is being repeated 7 times.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:39 pm

Thanks! I'll add the { and } characters. However, I didn't want to add the | character because I wanted people to be able to call %quoteregex on a string list and still have it work as an alternation list.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

Hmm, I can see the usefulness of doing that... but... what if I need to quote the '|'? Then I have to go through extra trouble and do the substitution myself.

There should be either two functions, or an optional argument to select the behavior. (And yeah, I guess to preserve compatibility, you'd have to make the default to not do it).

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:14 am

An argument is much better that two functions, just a simple true in order to quote the pipe and as you say a default of false.

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:49 pm

I think I'm going to add an argument to both %quote and %quoteregex that allows you to specify additional characters to quote.