RegExReplace and some characters

[euras]

I strugle to decribe these characters correctly like code give me normal value as normal characters. Can anybode help me With this RegExReplace?

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ab := "show these characters as normal characters :,!#¤%&/(()))=%`\'*-/+\.*?+[{|()^$"
adds := RegExReplace(ab, "", "")
msgbox, %adds%
return

[Guest]

You can escape special characters by preceding them with a \ so if you want search for literal ( you write it like so: \(

[p3trus]

...this RegExReplace does nothing, you know? You're replacing the empty string with the empty string.

I don't really understand your problem, but one possible problem is the default escape character (of ahk), ` - to get a literal `, you have to double it `` (commands/_EscapeChar.htm)

[euras]

I solved it like

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NewStr1 := RegExReplace(pe1, "\R", "``n") 
NewStr2 := RegExReplace(NewStr1, "\t", "``t")
NewStr5 := RegExReplace(NewStr2, "\{", "(")
NewStr6 := RegExReplace(NewStr5, "\}", ")")
NewStr7 := RegExReplace(NewStr6, "#", "{#}")
NewStr8 := RegExReplace(NewStr7, "\|", "/")
NewStr9 := RegExReplace(NewStr8, "\+","{+}")
NewStr10 := RegExReplace(NewStr9, "\^", "{^} ")
NewStr11 := RegExReplace(NewStr10, "!", "{!}")
NewStr12 := RegExReplace(NewStr11, ";", "```;")

but it doesn't looks Nice in code. But what to do, I think it must stay like that.

[p3trus]

..if you try to explain what you want exactly, maybe I (or someone else) can help out.

[Guest]

You don't need to create a new string variable each time you can just keep on assigning it to the same variable:

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NewStr := RegExReplace(NewStr, "\t", "``t")
NewStr := RegExReplace(NewStr, "\{", "(")
; etc

Alternative method (you can write the object as one line, multiple lines here for readability:

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SearchObject:={ "\R" : "``n"
	, "\t" : "``t"
	, "\{" : "("  
	, "\}" : ")"  
	, "\|" : "/"  
	, ";": "```;"
	, "(#|\+|\^|!)" : "{$1}" }
	
for k, v in SearchObject
	NewStr:=RegExReplace(NewStr,k,v)

[euras]

Alternative method (you can write the object as one line, multiple lines here for readability:

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SearchObject:={ "\R" : "``n"
	, "\t" : "``t"
	, "\{" : "("  
	, "\}" : ")"  
	, "\|" : "/"  
	, ";": "```;"
	, "(#|\+|\^|!)" : "{$1}" }
	
for k, v in SearchObject
	NewStr:=RegExReplace(NewStr,k,v)

alternative Method looks Nice, but how to describe ` part if I want get the same value? SearchObject:={ "" : ""}

[p3trus]

alternative Method looks Nice, but how to describe ` part if I want get the same value? SearchObject:={ "" : ""}

You don't need it at all, since replacing "anyvalue" by "thesamevalue" leaves the original string unchanged.

[sinkfaze]

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ab :=	abc :=	"show these characters as normal characters :,!#¤%&/(()))=%`\'*-/+\.*?+[{|()^$" ; make a copy of the string to search alongside the original
Pos=1 ; set the starting position for RegExMatch in the While loop
While	Pos :=	RegExMatch(abc,"\W",m,Pos+StrLen(m)) ; while non-word characters are found in the copy of the original string
	if	!(m~="\s") && (ab~="\" m) ; if the found character is not a whitespace character and exists in the original string
		MsgBox %	(ab :=	RegExReplace(ab,"\" m)) ; remove it from the original string
return