using REPLACE_PATTERN

[UnionSystems]

I'm a newbie to AwareIM but amazed by how much you can do with little effort. Aware IM really seems fantastic. I have however just struggled for 60 minutes trying to get REPLACE_PATTERN to work for me in a rule. I think I've discovered the following that might be useful for other newbies (please correct me if I'm wrong below!)

If you have a string and you want to swap elements of it using the REPLACE_PATTERN the following does not work :

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Person.ParsedString = REPLACE_PATTERN(Person.StoryTemplate,'ReplaceTheFirstName',Person.FirstName')

but this does work

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Person.ParsedString = REPLACE_PATTERN(Person.StoryTemplate,'ReplaceTheFirstName','<<Person.FirstName>>')

Also remember the second parameter of REPLACE_PATTERN respects regular expressions so if you put any special characters in it you need to escape them with a back slash. As per following to swap '{FirstName}'

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Person.ParsedString = REPLACE_PATTERN(Person.StoryTemplate,'\{FirstName\}','<<Person.FirstName>>')

[tford]

Did you try removing the unmatched ' at the end of Person.FirstName?

Person.ParsedString = REPLACE_PATTERN(Person.StoryTemplate,'ReplaceTheFirstName',Person.FirstName')