Re: [xsl] replacing tabs and the like in a string

[Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, it was the quotes around 	 that I was missing.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/09/2012 12:04, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>
>> I tried the obvious replace("abc def", &#x9;'\\t') (the space is a
>> tab)  and variations thereof (declaring a variable for the tab) and
>> I get "The regular expression in replace() must not be one that
>> matches a zero-length string"
>>
>> If you have a solution to hand I'd be grateful
>
>
> as posted it would be a syntax error as you only have two arguments to
> replace, it should be
>
>
> replace("abc def", '&#x9;', '\\t')
>
> To get the error that you showed you must have had a regex that matched ""
> usually because it has a * in it.
>
> David
>
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