editor.replace can't find ; character

[L&E Destock]

Hi,

I try to replace a sentence with another both including some     ;   character inside but it doesn't work , when I delete that character then the script works but I need that character to be included.

Here is the code I use :

editor.replace("\"Parent";"- bad_br7001";"\"", "\"Parent";"bad_br7001";"TU\"")

I'd like to replace
>        "Parent";"- bad_br7001";""

by that >   "Parent";"- bad_br7001";"TU"

thanks for your help

[Dave Brotherstone]

It's not the ; that's the problem, it's the quote immediately before it.  You need to escape every quote that's in your string, or, because Python is great, you can just use a single quote, and then you don't need to escape your double quotes.

So, easiest:

editor.replace('"Parent";"- bad_br7001";""', '"Parent";"bad_br7001";"TU"')

or, to correct your version:

editor.replace("\"Parent\";\"- bad_br7001\";\"\"", "\"Parent\";\"bad_br7001\";\"TU\"")

You can see from the syntax highlighting that it thinks the string is ended before the semi-colon, because the semi colon is coloured differently.

Cheers,
Dave.