Regex - What once worked now does not. I think.
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I’m doing a simple find and replace. I had it working, now it doesn’t work.
Have I made a mistake? It’s so simple:
[(A-Z)\.][(A-Z)]
Or maybe:
[(A-Z)(\.)][(A-Z)]It should find instances of any uppercase alpha character, followed by a “.”, followed by another uppercase alpha character.
And it worked in the past!
I do it today and it is ALSO finding any instance of two uppercase alpha characters in a row.
What have I forgotten here?
Thanks guys.
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OK my time to edit a post is gone so I have to correct the above in a new post:
I do it today and it is finding any instance of two uppercase alpha characters in a row, and any instance of a “.” followed by an uppercase alpha character.
Instead of finding “A.B” and NOT “AB”, it is finding “AB” and “.B” and NEVER “A.B”.
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Wait… now if I look at my search history it gives me:
([A-Z].)([A-Z])I’m an idiot.
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@Skullmonger said in Regex - What once worked now does not. I think.:
I’m an idiot.
And since you didn’t put your regex inside backticks when posting, so that it looks like this (the formatting):
see how I'm in red
We really don’t have a lot of confidence in what you’ve said in order to be able to help you (if you still need help, which is unclear). -
Maybe that’s it?
[A-Z]\.[A-Z]
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