removing backslashes

Ole,

Have you tried using rexSubstitute or rexReplace?

-Craig

Hi Craig

Yes, I've tried it together with rexMagix(nil) and without - but it may be my RexCompile string that is wrong.

I used the following lines (from memory since I'm at home now, so there may be a slight difference in real life :-))

rexMagic("nil") 

rexCompile("\\")

rexReplace("\\\\ns2009\\HP LaserJet 2550 PS" "\\" 0)

- If I substitute \\ with \ in the above line I get an error message

rexMagic(t) 

Best regards

Ole

Don't be fooled by double back slashes:

strlen("\\\\") => 2 (not 4)

But what you probably want to do is:

rexCompile("\\\\")
rexReplace(str, "/", 0)

To return "//NS2009/hp color LaserJet 2550 PS"

Dave

Yes, but rexMagic(nil) should turn off the special interpretation of the meta-character "\"

rexMagic(nil)

rexCompile("\\") ; should be a string length fo 2 to rexXXX

rexReplace("\\\\ns2009\\HP Color LaserJet" "\" 0);  errors due to 2nd argument I believe

rexCompile("\\\\")

rexReplace("\\\\ns2009\\HP Color LaserJet" "\\" 0);  => "\\ns2009\\HP Color LaserJet" 

So I guess I'm confused as to how rexMagic() really work or there's a bug.

And there's the confusion. rexMagic won't affect the string you pass to rexCompile. Whatever the state of rexMagic you will be passing one character to rexCompile with rexCompile("\\"). RexMagic doesn't affect Skill code - only the rex commands.