Regex Bug

[ghost]

Hello everyone, I use LeechBlock and block sites with Regex. My problem is if I block the word with a questionmark for example q=hotel? it also blocks hope, hopsen etc. But I just want to block this exact word. It looks like it just read the first two letters and the rest it completely ignore and block everything what at least in slightest looks like that. There should be done something. Something in the Regex function doesn't work correct. Hope you find it and thanks for your great work and your useful extension. With kind regards, Lukas

[proginosko]

Put a backslash (\) before the question mark. In general, special characters in regular expressions will be treated as regular characters when prefixed with a backslash: \? \* \+ \. etc.

[ghost]

You missunderstood me I want the question mark as Regex Character. I don't want to mask it to search for a question mark

[ghost]

The Problem is that the "?" don't do what it should. A Regex "?" search for the whole word before it and not just two characters. This is the problem

[proginosko]

In a regex, the ? makes the preceding token optional. So hotel? should match "hote" and "hotel". Since your regex is open-ended, it should also match anything with "hote" or "hotel" followed by any number of other characters. It should not match "hope" or "hopsen".

Please export your settings to a text file (Options > General > Export Options to File) and email it to leechblockng@proginosko.com so I can take a closer look.

[proginosko]

I said email the text file to me, not post the content here!