LCB: Error: illegal escape in string

[Phil Davis]

I'm not much of a regex guy, but what happens if you remove the 
backslash after {1,63} ?  I assume something will probably stop working, 
but that's the only \ in the string.

Phil Davis



On 2/23/16 1:59 PM, Stephen MacLean wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Working to build a library extension and I’m getting an error on this line when I go to test it in LCB:
>
> put "^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@(?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$" into tRegex
>
> The error is:
>
> illegal escape in string '^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@(?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$’
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve MacLean
>
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Phil Davis