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Henrik R.
Asked: 2018-08-20 07:26:29 +0800 CST

Regexxer stopped working - it doesn't find the string

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Regexxer is a brilliant search-replace tool for multiple files, but suddenly it stopped working August 10. I posted this on the Regexxer bug page:

I used this brilliant program less than 20 hours ago without any problems, but now it doesn't find the text string, although it is taken from one of the files in the left panel. I am using version 0.10-3 installed directly from the Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS repository. I also tried reinstalling it. Didn't help.
Please help.

But nobody has answered. Am I the only one for whom it stopped working?

For example, this string (taken verbatim from one of the files) isn't found:

If you can't see the (Facebook) Comments Box here

regexxer screenshot of the above example

regex 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I don't have the program installed to test, but from a glance, it appears the problem in your example is the parentheses (). In most flavours of regex, parens are special characters that indicate a match group. So try escaping them:

    If you can't see the \(Facebook\) Comments Box here

    Otherwise, try a single word for example, like Facebook or Firefox or something.

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