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rolgiati · 10-17-2021, 07:03 AM

Wanting to remove the parenthesis around the final text between parenthesis at the end of book titles, I tried to replace (.*) $(.*)$$ with \1 \2 and got the ominous warning:“bogus escape error”

Seem python does not like having the laxt regex character escaped.

But I found a simple bodge to get around the problem.

First step, in Character match, replace ) with )X

Then in Regular expression replace (.*) $(.*)$X$ with \1 \2

Worked a treat.

10-17-2021, 07:03 AM	#1
rolgiati Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 31650 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Asuncion (Paraguay) Device: In the house, 3 K3 in use, 4 more in storage, and a K5 for testing	“bogus escape error” in regex Wanting to remove the parenthesis around the final text between parenthesis at the end of book titles, I tried to replace (.) \((.)\)$ with \1 \2 and got the ominous warning:“bogus escape error” Seem python does not like having the laxt regex character escaped. But I found a simple bodge to get around the problem. First step, in Character match, replace ) with )X Then in Regular expression replace (.) \((.)\)X$ with \1 \2 Worked a treat.