SOLVED! REGEX error - Line: Expecting ,, range, found

mightycpa · Post by **mightycpa** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:35 pm

A picture is worth a thousand words here. I have no idea what this error means. Can you help me out?

All I want to do is count the number of periods in a string. I'm sure I'm missing something fundamental, but I don't know what it is.

Here are the current values:

Here's the error:

mightycpa · Post by **mightycpa** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:52 pm

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//**BREAKPOINT**
      //Let>pd_pattern=.  
      RegEx>\.,%new_item%,0,matches,v_num_matches,0

. matches all chars... escape the dot matches a period
WHO KNEW?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:42 am

mightycpa wrote:WHO KNEW?

I did, but you got there before I saw your post

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dot.html

SOLVED! REGEX error - Line: Expecting ,, range, found

SOLVED! REGEX error - Line: Expecting ,, range, found

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