How to use StringRegExReplace to find a literal ? and replace both it and anything afterwords with nothing?

[BryanWall]

I've looked at:

 

Below is some of the things I've tried for the ?:

\Q?\E

\?

For the anything I've tried:

.*

[\s\S]*

 

And I've tried all sorts of combinations with various parantheses, brackets, etc. None of it works for me. If I just do the anything part, it does remove stuff so I'm presuming my problem is with the ? part.

 

I'm trying to remove those characters so that the $test string will match the $ExpDir string. 

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2)

$hWndPP = WinGetHandle("POSPac MMS")

$ExpDir = "D:\Applanix test\AutomationTest\Exports\W0205_ERSKINE_NJ\PostProcessed 1 of 1_W0205_ERSKINE_NJ"
wLog($ExpDir)
$test = ControlGetText($hWndPP,"","[NAME:TargetFileBox]") ; D:\Applanix test\AutomationTest\Exports\W0205_ERSKINE_NJ\PostProcessed 1 of 1_W0205_ERSKINE_NJ?ct
wLog($test)
;~ $test = StringRegExpReplace($test,"\Q?\E[\s\S]*","")

$test = StringRegExpReplace($test,"\?.*","")
wLog(($test))

wLog merely writes to console with timestamp and newline

[MagnumXL]

"\?" will match your single question mark.

To remove the it and the rest I would use something like

"\?[^\n]+"

which technically will remove only the rest of that line but not the return character at the end.

Or

"\?.*"

which remove the ? and all characters after it, including new lines. 

[jchd]

7 hours ago, MagnumXL said:

"\?.*"

which remove the ? and all characters after it, including new lines. 

I doubt it: dot (.) doesn't match newline sequences by default.

[BryanWall]

😨

#Region regEx Testing
    $testIn = "Anything?cd"

    wLog($testIn)
    $testOut = StringRegExpReplace($testIn,"\Q?\E[\s\S]*","")
    wLog(("\Q?\E[\s\S]* :" & $testOut))

    $testOut = StringRegExpReplace($testIn,"\?.*","")
    wLog(("\?.* :" & $testOut))


    $testOut = StringRegExpReplace($testIn,"\?[^\n]+","")
    wLog(("\?[^\n]+ :" & $testOut))

    Exit


#EndRegion

Now all methods are working just fine. 

1/11/2024 11:07:47 AM Anything?cd
1/11/2024 11:07:47 AM \Q?\E[\s\S]* :Anything
1/11/2024 11:07:47 AM \?.* :Anything
1/11/2024 11:07:47 AM \?[^\n]+ :Anything

I have no idea why the same code was giving different outputs the other day. That is a little scary.

Thank you for all of the help.