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Old 03-17-2016, 10:58 PM   #1
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Question Regex wildcard trouble
Hi. Time for what is probably another stupid question.

I've been loving 0.9.4 — the ability to work with ePub3 is great, and the whole app is running more smoothly for me.

Except that I went to do a wildcard Regex search today — something I've done thousands of times... and it didn't behave normally.

The search was
Code:
mybook\.to(.*)
Every time I do a search, it finds
Code:
mybook.to
But it won't find the rest of the URL. When I tried
Code:
mybook\.to(.+)
it selected ONE more character: the forward slash. But the rest of the URL remained unselected.

I've got all four of the check boxes selected, but I also tried turning each of them off to no avail.

I'm running Sigil 0.9.4 on a Mac that sports OS X 10.11.3. (It's a MacBook Pro mid-2012 with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8GB of RAM, if that matters, which I am sure it doesn't.) All of the various libraries are up to date — I made sure when I undated last week.

What am I doing wrong?

(FWIW, I'm replacing Amazon links with links to my website so that I can use the ebook on other vendor sites. There are 84 of them; I'd really rather not go through and change them one by one. But besides, I use regex all of the time, and if it isn't going to behave, I need to find another option.)
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