regular expression

[mariannevanharten]

When using Control panel - Manage family trees - Data fixes - Search and replace - regular expression I think something is not working correctly.

By accident I entered in the field Replacement text also a backslash before the parentheses
(Gld)
It results in a string including the backslash.
Now I try to delete the unwanted backslash, so I searched \(Gld\) and replacement (Gld),
The string is not found in my database...

Is that really a bug or did I make a mistake to correct this?

Best regards,
Marianne

[fisharebest]

The backslash has special meaning for the SEARCH TEXT.
But it is just a normal character in the REPLACE TEXT.

Now I try to delete the unwanted backslash, so I searched (Gld) and replacement (Gld),

You should search for \\\(Gld\\\). \\ matches a backslash. \( matches a bracket.

Or,... use a normal search/replace. You do not need a regular expression to replace \(Gld\) with (Gld).