Idea - Add an Escape function to the Text extension

Add an Escape function to the Text extension

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Hi,

In order to build correct regular expressions, it is often necessary to escape reserved characters in the string to be searched. This is especially true when the string comes from a user-generated input (for example, the name of an email attachment).

For this, the following C# method can be used:

Regex.Escape(String)

A similar method probably exists for the Java stack.

Regards,

Rui

23 Jun 2017

Leonardo Fernandes

MVP

Hi Rui.

I have created a forge component with that action: https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component/2007/text-and-html-processing/

The component does much more than that, but the action is RegexEscapePattern, and it works in Java too!

28 Jun 2017