Full stop (period) interpreted as wildcard?![solved]

[stam]

Hi all,

in my adventures in livecodescriptland, i came across this bizzaro:

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put replaceText("text.one.two", ".", ",") 

returns

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,,,,,,,,,,,,

instead of text,one,two as a i would have expected...
surely a bug?

Grateful if others can confirm (or correct me!)
Stam

[stam]

to answer my own question, it seems replacetext actually takes regular expressions, so the full stop "." has to be 'escaped' with a '\'

ie the correct expression is

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put replaceText("text.one.two", "\.", ",") 

feel free to ignore me

[dunbarx]

Stam.

Ignore? No. You are just my kind of guy.

Craig