RegExReplace

Ok, I think I have most of it figured out, but I'm getting stuck on how to use RegExReplace properly.

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I'm not all the way sure how RegExReplace works yet, so I'm pretty sure I've messed up that somewhere.

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I can explain the regular expression, not why the RegExReplace works this way ...

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Ok, I think I have most of it figured out, but I'm getting stuck on how to use RegExReplace properly.

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Although RegExReplace is slower than Stringreplace, it allows you to replace unwanted characters from any user input (incl the $) in one fell swoop.

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I will change my scripts to incorporate this RegExReplace solution

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You could just replace the special characters with StringReplace or RegExReplace e.g. str = files\Example ...

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There are other possibilities i.e. with RegExReplace to achieve this goal also.

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I'm kinda shocked you seem to have tested/used everyone's example but mine, I think mine is the clearest/easiest to edit ... output: = RegExReplace (input, regex, replace) ... that clearly shows what's happening on that line (take input var, filter thru regex, replacing as needed with contents of replace var, send result to output), instead of ...

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I'm not all the way sure how RegExReplace works yet, so I'm pretty sure I've messed up that somewhere.

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