[Mono-list] How to fix StrLike bug in 2.4

[Jonathan Pobst]

On 3/22/2010 2:27 PM, Andrus wrote:
> Code below produes invalid result (False) in 2.4 and 2.6
> How to fix it so it runs properly in 2.4.2 ?

If looks like our implementation converts it into a regular expression 
and then runs that.  However, it does not escape regex special 
characters like (, {, ), or }.

http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/mono-basic/vbruntime/Microsoft.VisualBasic/Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices/StringType.vb

There are three options:

- Escape them yourself:
@"SELECT*FROM \(\{0\}\) *";

- Fix the vbruntime to escape them properly.

- Use regular expressions instead of using the StrLike function.

Jonathan