Regex strings losing order

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Regex strings losing order

Postby bigi » Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:22 am

I've been happily using a mixture of regex, find/replace and remove functions for thousands of files over the last couple of months; but tonight (after a windows 11 update), the regex is going completely haywire! it's matching one group, but seems to be using the replace section from another - for example, i'm suddenly getting the last ")" in a name changed to "[)]" and getting extra spaces round "-"; the best one is "12inch" being changed to "C'est".....!

I've cleared and reinstalled BRU and manually readded the regex again, but it's exactly the same. our AI friend suggested that the .NET/PCRE engine in windows has been changed in the current windows 11 release and thats why it may have broken - and to use the built in dll with BRU by enabling a legacy dll mode - but it's not in 4.1 from what i can see.

Has anyone else seen this problem? it's doing my head in! spent ages getting this working perfectly, and now it's gone to pot again :-(
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Re: Regex strings losing order

Postby Admin » Tue Nov 04, 2025 10:28 am

Hi, BRU does not depend or use .NET nor external Windows DLLs for Regex. Would you be able to send your file (.bru) and issue description to support via email?
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