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specialChars not identifying correct regular expression

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I have the following regular expression:

/\[\[\s?date\(\'([0-9a-zA-Z\s\:\-\+]*)\'(\s?,\s?\'([a-zA-Z \-\:]*)\')?\)\s?\]\]/g

Which matches the following string:

I went for a walk on '[[date('last week', 'Y-m-d')]]' and '[[ date('today') ]]'

Results can be seen here:

https://regex101.com/r/XC8gQT/2

However, when I try to use the regular expression with specialChars, the text is not replaced as I would expect.

The code I’ve used is:

window.onload = function() {
        editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("query"), {
            lineNumbers: true,
            mode: "text/x-mysql",
            matchBrackets: true,
            specialChars: /\[\[\s?date\(\'([0-9a-zA-Z\s\:\-\+]*)\'(\s?,\s?\'([a-zA-Z \-\:]*)\')?\)\s?\]\]/g,
            specialCharPlaceholder: function(ch) {
                var node = document.createElement("span");
                node.innerHTML = 'it-works';
                node.className = "special";
                node.title = 'It works!';
                return node;
            }
        });
    };

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

marijnhcommented, Oct 1, 2016

Nope, sorry, I am not being paid enough to act as a help desk.

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amochohancommented, Oct 1, 2016

Could you provide a small code sample to get me started?

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