Thread: Custom identifier: User error?
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Old 01-18-2023, 05:57 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Comfy.n View Post
I can't see what the problem was, but I'm glad it's fixed, lol.
It used a regular expression based on the template. In OP's case the template contains a ? which is a special character in a regexp. So the fix is to escape all special characters in the template before converting it into a regex.
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