Question

How can I use some special chars line % and " within a search?

In my case I want to set up a search for the string:

%INCLUDE{"OutdatedPage"}%

this way:

%SEARCH{search="???" regex="on" scope="text" nosummary="on" nosearch="on" noheader="on" nototal="on"}%

Environment

-- MichaelSzodorai - 08 Jul 2005

Answer

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Write:

%SEARCH{search="[%]INCLUDE{\"OutdatedPage\"}[%]" regex="on" scope="text" nosummary="on" nosearch="on" noheader="on" nototal="on"}%

The square bracket with one char is like a no operation in regex, used to escape the INCLUDE action. Escape the quotes with backslash.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Sep 2005

Has worked for me using \\ for backslash:

%SEARCH{search="[%]INCLUDE{\\"OutdatedPage\\"}[%]" regex="on" scope="text" nosummary="on" nosearch="on" noheader="on" nototal="on"}%

Thanks.

-- MichaelSzodorai- 02 Sep 2005