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NSC | Using Special Characters in REGEXP Formula Patterns

May 7, 2024 11:09AM edited Jun 2, 2025 2:44PM in Saved Searches

Scenario

User needs to use a special character (such as period, asterisk, plus sign) in a REGEXP formula.

In REGEXP, special characters are used to define patterns for searching and matching within strings.

For example:

Period (.): Matches any single character except newline.
Asterisk (*): Matches zero or more occurrences of the preceding element.
Plus Sign (+): Matches one or more occurrences of the preceding element.

Solution

To include special characters in a regular expression (REGEXP) formula in NetSuite Saved Search, you typically need to escape those characters with a backslash (\) to ensure they are treated as literals rather than special characters in the regular expression pattern.

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