Disable special characters in Match Pattern function

[bim4]

Hi,

I'm currently programming a parser but the parsed text sometimes contains special characters like "?"  for example

As a consequence, to match this expression I shoud force the "\" before this char.

Is there a way to simply disable the special characters in the Match Pattern.vi ? It'd avoid me to write a program to add "\" before any special char of my text...

Thank you in advance for your help.

 Bim

[Matthew_Kelton]

You should try using Search/Split String instead.  It doesn't use any special format characters in the search string.  The only con is it doesn't have the match and rest of string separated.

[jcarmody]

I don't see the problem with having these characters in the 'string' being searched by Match Pattern.  Are you wiring these into the 'regular expression' input?  Perhaps I'm misreading your explanation; could you post an example?

Jim

[ajangot]

Hi,

If you use regular expression you don't have the choice to put "\" before any special character, it's the regular expression syntax.

Thanks to use NI forums.

[Yamaeda]

Would it work to use the "Search and Replace String"-function?

/Y

[bim4]

Finally I get a result by adding "\" on these characters : [\.\?\\\^\[\]\+\*\$]

Thank you for your help