find and replace problem (Capturing Group / Control Character)

[Thomas Christen]

Hi all

First off: Thank you very much for python script. I'm new to Regular Expressions and Python. Everything I needed so far worked :-) ... until now....

Im trying to do a find and replace as follows:

editor.rereplace("^<sup>(.*?)</sup>"," \? \1 \n : ")

Instead of returning the content of the Capturing Group I get a Control Character (SOH) in Notepad++.

If I perform the find and replace directly in Notepad++ (without Python Script) it works flawlessly.

What am I missing?

Thank you very much.

Tom

[CFrank]

Hello Thomas,

you are correct, npp is using \1 notation internally where as boost regular expression mentions $1 to be used. See here for more information about regex replace part and this site about the search part.

Cheers
Claudia

[Henri Mesquida]

Hello @CFranck, so what is the solution because same problem :(
Make multiple search/replace "à la main" whitout automation?
Thank you in advance.
Henri
PS. Needed to change the order of the columns and delete some of them from a CSV extract.

Search = (".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(".*?"),(.*)
replace = \4,\1,\5,\7,\6,\9

[CFrank]

so what is the solution

Escaping. Python uses the backslash internally as well, so you need to do things like
\\4,\\1...

Cheers
Claudia