LCB: Error: illegal escape in string

[Stephen MacLean]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for responding, I’m not one either and it works fine with no issues when run directly in LC. 

Removing the “\” does cure the error, but of course doesn’t work any more.

So the question I guess is two fold: 1) Why is that considered an escape character when it is enclosed in quotes and 2) How do you escape it?

Sorry, trying to learn LCB. Documentation is hard to find, at least for me. The dictionary for LCB is very light at the moment.

Thanks,

Steve MacLean

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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