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John_45699
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Mar 14, 2012

Parentheses in stream expression

I need to search for and replace a string that includes a "(". Whenever I try this, I get a regex compilation error because the parentheses are not balanced. How do I make this work?     Here ...
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Mar 14, 2012
If you aren't using variables in the stream expression you can wrap it in curly braces and avoid the need to escape meta-characters:

 

 

set stream_expression_cmd "STREAM::expression {@/sap(@/test/sap(/@}"

 

 

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