How do I replace a string with another string in VEX (e.g. change ../shop/.. to ../shopnet1/.. in the material path)?

Since there is no replace I tried to use re_replace. Not working unfortunately. What do I miss here? What kind of syntax is needed?

Cheers!
Tom

Tom Mangold
Not working unfortunately.

do you have specific not working example in mind?

as the straightforward case works:

however if you want to be safe and really use correct regex you may need to do :

since otherwise . represents any character so it would match any 2 starting characters not just ..

Thanks Tomas, that helped a lot!

How would you do wildcards?

This isn't doing anything:

Thanks,

For simple wildcards it's easier to use Attrib String Edit SOP (as with re_replace you have to use regex syntax)

Looked for wildcard syntax in regex, but I don't really understand it or find the right answer. Do you know it? It's practically the only thing I need to know.

With the Attr String Edit SOP I have this problem that it operates on the updates values also. (Already submitted an RFE for an option to have an option to iterate on input values only)

See picture: In the end just everything is 'capBottom', 'capTop' is just dissapeared

Thats why I went into a wrangle, because there I could write it unto a temporary attribute.

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OdFotan
How would you do wildcards?

This isn't doing anything:

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Thanks,

for such simple case of direct replacement you can omit pattern matching and do this directly

Thank you,
It works.

I guess this is no 'syntax' at all,