Re: Regular expressions and input with parentheses

Chris Travers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.template-toolkit
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Ronald J Kimball
<rkimball-jkI2qz8QNLsmlAP/[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all;
>>
>> What's the best way to handle regular expressions (replace filter) where
>> the text to be matched may include parenteses?
>>
>
> I think your question is not very clear.  Do you have an example of what
> you're trying to accomplish?
>
> Here's a simple example using the replace filter with text that includes
> parentheses:
>
> [% 'abc(def)ghi' | replace('\(.*\)','[123]') %]
>
>
The original issue was with list.grep(variable) where variable might have (
and ) in it.

I just replaced it with a FOREACH IN and that fixed it.

Best Wishes,.
Chris Travers

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