Xbench 2.9 - Invalid character

Technical Support
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Hi, i have Xbench 3.0 installed and am using the following check list item for the Target which works great.

“[A-z]@(-)(me|te|se|(?o)|(?a)|o|a|lhe|no|vo)*” -“e-mail” -“e-mails” -“check-out” -“Shangri-la” -“pré-pago” -“pré-pagos” -“ar-condicionado” -“meio-dia” -“https”

Option:
MS Word Wildcard
Power search - On

However, i have a vendor who uses X bench version 2.9 and they are getting an Invalid character error when they try to add the above as a check list item.

The issue seems to be with the dash character “-” that is in the () brackets

Example: [A-z]@(-)

Any suggestions.

Thanks

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Hi. i got it partially working by double escaping the the - character

“[A-z]@(\-)(me|te|se|(?o)|(?a)|o|a|lhe|no|vo)*” -“e-mail” -“e-mails” -“check-out” -“Shangri-la” -“pré-pago” -“pré-pagos” -“ar-condicionado” -“meio-dia” -“https”

However the terms in the expression that i do not want to find are showing up in the results

Terms not to find:
-“e-mail” -“e-mails” -“check-out” -“Shangri-la” -“pré-pago” -“pré-pagos” -“ar-condicionado” -“meio-dia” -“https”

These terms did not show up in the results for version 3.0 but are now showing up in version 2.9

Help appreciated.
Thanks

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Got it working (as close as), it seems in version 2.9, the - in the terms also needs to be escaped

-“e-mail” -“e-mails” -“check-out” -“Shangri-la” -“pré-pago” -“pré-pagos” -“ar-condicionado” -“meio-dia” -“https”

Thanks

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Any of the characters used in regular expressions syntax []{}\-+*.^$<>()%@ must be escaped if they should be escaped when they are searched as characters.

Please note that " is escaped as "" to be searched as a single character when using PowerSearch.