Sadly, no. :( I'm not building up the string in question. That was just a sample of a typical (atypical?) string I'm grabbing. Well... I lied. I am building up the path (in the above example, that would be C:\random\location), it's the names I'm not building up. Really, they literally come to me as ab\delta (I add the .txt) and ab\delta is literally going to be the name of the file or directory in the string I'm constructing. While scanning over the logs, I did find several botched names that come up as something like ab\\delta

So if I have two strings, one as ab\delta and the other as ab\\delta. I must know how many real \s (or * or ? or whatever) there are so I can add in the appropriate number of replacements.

In reply to Re^2: Disable Regex by SavannahLion
in thread Disable Regex by SavannahLion

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