Bugs item #3472474, was opened at 2012-01-11 09:25 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by bewareofdoug You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3472474...

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Category: General

Group: None Status: Closed

Resolution: Invalid Priority: 1

Private: No Submitted By: ACarter (a1carter)

Assigned to: Doug (bewareofdoug)

Summary: Using regex "(.*)" with replace.py

Initial Comment: When using regex on replace.py, and using this replacement: "(.*)" "Something here", nothing happens. It gives "Getting 60 pages from <wiki>...", and goes no further, just stays there.

When using verbose, it prints "Requesting API query from <wiki>.", and then goes no further, just like before

I have tested a lot of small differences, and the error only occurs when the text to find is exactly "(.*)". If you use, for example "{{(.*)", it works fine.

The full arguments were: 'replace.py -regex "(.*)" "Something" -cat:"Category"'

I'm or r9811, 2011/12/17 (15 o'clock if that makes a difference), Windows, Python 2.7.2

Thanks

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Comment By: Doug (bewareofdoug)

Date: 2012-01-12 10:36

Message: I've often run across this mainly because I continue to forget what is happening. It seems at first glance like it should work but when you remember that .* matches 0 or more of anything, you realize that it is matching literally "anything and nothing" Normally, what is really wanted is .+ that is 1 or more of anything, this will match the entire content of a page when dotall is true.

Marking as closed as invalid

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Comment By: ACarter (a1carter) Date: 2012-01-12 09:19

Message: I've reckon out this is probably because of the immense processing power it would take replacing everything in a page. It's probably solveable a different way anyway

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