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Why is a function as 3-rd arg in the "replace" function not evaluating capturing groups?

philbond
Observer

Hi all,

Due to utf16/8-mismatch, I find a lot of utf16 \xnn chars in my events; this makes the json-parser  kind of losing it.

So I want to get the right utf8 chars out of a dictionary json-table by doing:

f=replace(_raw,"\\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})",json_extract(utfx,"{}.\1"))

The dictionary simply looks like [{"00":"utf8char-1"}, ..., {"AE":"é"},...]

But this doesn't seem to work, the event even gets nilled completely.

Something explicit like this does seem to work though: (here for instance, all utf16 \xAE chars get replaced by the "é" char:
f=replace(_raw,"\\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})",json_extract(utfx,"{}.9E"))

or this:

f=replace(_raw,"\\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})","\1")), which simply removes the "\x"

...so is it like the capt.groups of the regex in replace() is not evaluated if it is arg to another function io a plain string?

Tx.

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philbond
Observer

..bump..

Anybody??

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