Regex replace issue

[spiros]

Regular expressions checked.

Find: $
Replace: [\google]

The result is
[google]

To have the result as [\google]
It needs to be
Replace: [\\google]

However, this is not a problem when it is run via a macro:
document.selection.Replace("$","[/google]",eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp,0);

[Yutaka Emura]

The macro should be :
document.selection.Replace("$","[\\\\google]",eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp,0);

[spiros]

Yes, sorry about the macro, my error, I used forward slash instead. The point is whether it makes sense for the replacement of [\google] to become [google] in standard regex and requiring [\\google] in order to replace as expected.

[Yutaka Emura]

I am not exactly sure what your question is. Please write an example, what you expect to match literally, and what EmEditor actually matches.

[Stefan]

spiros mentions that he have to escape the backslash \ in the regex replacement by doubling it to \\

Find: $
Replace: [\google]
(o) Regular Expression

must be
Replace: [\\google]
(o) Regular Expression

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