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chaley · 12-14-2012, 01:37 PM

Are you making a composite custom column (column made from other columns) or are you using search/replace to remove the unwanted stuff?

Your template works fine for me when making a custom column for comments that don't contains newlines. However, it would be better written as

Code:

{comments:re(###.*,)}

If your comments contain newlines (my guess is that there is a newline after the ###) then you should use something like

Code:

{comments:'re($,  '(?s)###(.*)', '') '}

The (?s) in the beginning tells the regexp processor that the . character can match newlines.

12-14-2012, 01:37 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,742 Karma: 6997045 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Are you making a composite custom column (column made from other columns) or are you using search/replace to remove the unwanted stuff? Your template works fine for me when making a custom column for comments that don't contains newlines. However, it would be better written as Code: {comments:re(###.,)} If your comments contain newlines (my guess is that there is a newline after the ###) then you should use something like Code: {comments:'re($, '(?s)###(.)', '') '} The (?s) in the beginning tells the regexp processor that the . character can match newlines.