Searching for a term that contains a slash crashes MSBTE
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I searched for src\ (this is the beginning of the path where my projects are located) and MBSTE crashed.
Yep, this is my bad. You can double the symbol as temp workaround src\\|
Unfortunately I don't see a way to escape the string automatically. Of course, you can call Regex.Escape(...) but then it escapes everything including . and *, so that for the string foo.*bar you will get foo\.\*bar that is what we don't want. That's why I just left the code as is but moved the exception to the output window.
Will be shipped with the next release.
How about automatically escaping \ when it is not followed by one of regex special characters ?
If we supported it for \, we would need to support the same for other symbols. Although it is easy to implement for \, it is not for other symbols like [. With that symbol we would need to look for ] somewhere farther in the string and ensure that it is not escaped \]. It looks like a complication without a big need. This search is one-time action that's why I think we can pay this cost for simplification. The only issue I still see is performance. Exception handling is heavy operation. But there is no any other officially supported way to validate the expression