[mkgmap-dev] How can I test if "(" or ")" is part of name

Mon Jul 28 10:30:49 BST 2014

Hi Felix,

okay, sounds like an mkgmap problem then.
Try to use the hex format:
\xhh 	The character with hexadecimal value 0xhh

Gerd

Felix Hartmann-2 wrote
> Well that's what I thought too... - so I tried many many possibilities. 
> However the strange this is - now that you said it and I tried it again. 
> It only works for ) , not for (
> (I first only tried opening parentheses so thought it is not working at 
> all...)
> 
> name ~ '.*\(' { set name='${name|subst:"(=>"}'; echo "namehasbracket=1" }
> name ~ '.*\)' { set name='${name|subst:")=>"}'; echo "namehasbracket=2" }
> 
> second rule is working, first rule not working...
> 
> 
> Also not working is:
> '.*\Q(\E'
> 
> or
> '.*[(]'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 28.07.2014 11:02, Gerd Petermann wrote:
>> Hi Felix,
>>
>> the normal escape character is the backslash \.
>> See also
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:33:25 +0200
>> > From: 

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>> > Subject: [mkgmap-dev] How can I test if "(" or ")" is part of name
>> >
>> > I have a problem that I cannot escape brackets when trying to find out
>> > if they are part of the name...
>> >
>> > name ~ '.*(' { }
>> > is not working of course. However ^ is not able to escape a bracket...
>> > name ~ '.*^(' { }
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there any way to find out if there is a () in a name?
>> > (the reason for this is that I want to know in Japan if the name is 
>> only
>> > in Japanese, or in Japanese (English).
>> >
>> > --
>> > keep on biking and discovering new trails
>> >
>> > Felix
>> > openmtbmap.org & www.velomap.org
>> >
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> 
> Felix
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