OT: need advice with regex

[Thierry Douez]

on mouseUp

   put "Enjoy the sunny days [at least in my place] :)" into tfilter

   put replacetext(tFilter,"\[.*\]","(done)") into tfilter

   put tfilter

end mouseUp

Thierry


2012/7/19 Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>

> Hi,
>
> I want to replace a string with an opening and closing square bracket and
> any sign in between with three question marks, like this
>
> put replacetext(tFilter,"[?]","???") into tFilter
>
> I tried to escape the square brackets like this:
>
> put replacetext(tFilter,"\[?\]","???") into tFilter
>
> and get as a result in tFilter only the second bracket replaced.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Thank you
>
> Tiemo
>
>
>
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