I was fixing my code for aNILEators emoticons and apparently Plus! doesn't like the syntax of the regex I made Error: Syntax error in regular expression (code: -2146823271).  I couldn't see anything wrong with it so I thought I'd use regex coach (like we use with work) and it said everything was caturing correctly.  I realise it is made more for perl than JScript, but there is nothing in it that should make an difference (perl is the one which is less lenient).  So I've come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with Plus!'s error checking.  I asked Cookie to check it out but I guess he has had no time, and I've been busy doing holiday stuff with the family.  If anyone would like to give it a go here is the code that I used.

code:

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var emails = new Array("email.address@gmail.com");
var re = new RegExp(":(?:|[DOP()$@S]|-[#*])|\((?:[6e~#r*d&@lkfwz%]|co?|au?|[ima]p?|um?|x{1,2}|yn?|h5?|s[nto]?|pi?|tu?|[nb](?:ah)?|brb|\{\)\(\})\)|8(?:-|o)\||\^o\)|\+o\(","gi");
function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(pChatWnd,sMessage){
    for(i in emails){
        if (Messenger.MyUserId == emails[i]){
            return sMessage.replace(re,function($1){
                Debug.Trace($1);
                if($1.charAt(0) === ":"){
                    $1.replace(/:-?/,"=");
                }else if($1.charAt(0) === "("){
                    $1.replace(/\(|\)|\*|&/g,function($1){
                    Debug.Trace($1);
                        switch($1){
                            case "(": return "{";
                            case ")": return "}";
                            case "*": return "*2";
                            case "&": return "dog";
                        }
                    });
                }else{
                    switch($1){
                        case "8-|": return "8o)";
                        case "^o)": return "=/";
                        case "\+o(": return "=o(";
                        case "8o|": return "=o|";
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

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Escape your backslashes.

quote:

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Originally posted by http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html
I recommend that you do not use the RegExp constructor with a literal string, because in literal strings, backslashes must be escaped. The regular expression \w+ can be created as re = /\w+/ or as re = new RegExp("\\w+"). The latter is definitely harder to read. The regular expression \\ matches a single backslash. In JavaScript, this becomes re = /\\/ or re = new RegExp("\\\\").

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Haha thanks.

* markee feels like a nub