SearchOptions Wildcards about office-js

[nunocv]

Is there any news regarding this?

[JuaneloJuanelo]

Can you explain in more detail what are you trying to search? if you want to find the '@' symbol you can do so without using the wildcard marker. If you can send a few samples of what you are trying to find will be helpful. Note that at the end of the referred article we describe how to deal with escaping special characters.

[nunocv]

I want to find this [@!$#][{]*[}][\t]
Is this wildcard wrong?

[JuaneloJuanelo]

thanks! what is the original string you are expecting to be found?

[nunocv]

This per example:

"@{title=${Key}|href=${BaseURL}/browse/${Key}}\r\t${qrcode(‘Hello World’)}\r\t!{URL}\r\t"
Resulting in 3 strings
@{title=${Key}|href=${BaseURL}/browse/${Key}}\r\t
${qrcode(‘Hello World’)}\r\t
!{URL}\r\t

[JuaneloJuanelo]

the \r \t are literal or are actual line breaks/tabs in the document?
can you attach a sample doc?

[JuaneloJuanelo]

also please add what platform are you using and Build number. thanks!

[nunocv]

Here you go!
TestDoc.docx

[nunocv]

The most recent Word 365, can't say the build number because I swapped it for 2016 pro to test other stuff.

[nunocv]

Any updates?

[fergiemcdowall]

It would also be good to know to what extent regular expressions are supported in SearchOptions.

[kbrandl]

Transferring this issue from OfficeDev/office-js-docs into OfficeDev/office-js.

[JuaneloJuanelo]

@fergiemcdowall I would not say that regular expressions are supported in searchOptions. We have a simple wilcard search as of now.

[JuaneloJuanelo]

Regular expression search is currently not supported in the API. please add a request in our uservoice channel. https://officespdev.uservoice.com/