EasyCatalog REGEX issues

[Jose_A_IdearIdeas]

Hi all,

I have an issue with REGEX on cleansing options:

There is a custom field that concatenate several fields, this text is an example: "XTREM SMOKE - 20X200 cm. BP2020L" 

I want to catch the "X" in green but not the red one. I typed: "REGEX:X(?=\d)= x ;" the expected output was: "XTREM SMOKE - 20 x 200 cm. BP2020L"  but is catching nothing.

I've tried other regular expressions and I realized that the character classes and the look ahead/behind constructions are not working.

Any idea?

PS: on InDesign find/replace the expression is working. Only fails for the Cleansing options on EasyCatalog.

[Peter Kahrel]

You should ask the EasyCatalog people.

[EasyCatalog_Brian]

Hi Jose,

When using EasyCatalog cleansing options, you have to remember when you are using "=", its the point where you are saying I want something changed to something else.

eg. green=red

In this instance, the cleansing option in EasyCatalog would change the word green to red anywhere in the data.

What if the data had green=cool as text and you wanted to change that to just say red?

green=cool=red will not work.

So Easycatalog wants you to use "==" so it knows where something is been changed to something else.

green==cool=red will work.

Now to your problem if you haven't guessed at all....

REGEX:X(?=\d)= x ;  should be REGEX:X(?==\d)= x ;

Hope that helps.

You can find more information about REGEX/REGEXV2 at my EasyCatalog Support Site.

https://cunka.com/easycatalog/myEasyCatalog.html#_using_regular_expressions

Cheers

Brian