IndexMatic3 indesign assistance

[Markus Lee]

I've recently purchased indexMatic3 Pro, Everything works perfectly except I'm trying to make an index from a series of codes from a text document for a catalog but some of the codes feature a Forward slash "/" (ie: 21008/MPTKT4RSS).

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've read the manual it doesn't seem to be of assistance 

Thanks

Mark

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

I think you should contact author directly?

Maybe you need to "escape" them - \/?

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Please check Page 43 of the manual.

[...] Should an expression

contain a slash character (/), replace it by the escape sequence \/. [...]

[Markus Lee]

You sir are a lifesaver, i swear I read that manual so many times honestly don't know how i missed it 🤦

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You are welcome.

It's a JavaScript "thing" - in the UI you just enter "/" like most other characters and InDesign take care of the rest.

But because your phrases are used "directly" in the JavaScript - you need to "prepare" them by adding "\" before some special characters.