The RegEx Replace and RegEx Find MechComp components do not work

[Jfighter]

RegEx Replace Component Bug
Overview: This component acts as a relay(passes on whatever comes in) instead of applying any RegEx.
Reproduction:

1. Link up Button > RegEx Replace > Sound Synthesizer
   
2. Set the signal for the button to "olive garden"(no quotes)
   
3. Set the expression for the RegEx to /olive//g
   
4. Press the Button
   

Expected: The sound synthesizer says " garden"
Actual: The sound synthesizer says "olive garden"

RegEx Find Component Bug
Overview: This component stops all signals instead of letting through signals that match the expression. I could not find any expression that lets through a signal.
Reproduction:

1. Link up Button > RegEx Find > Sound Synthesizer
   
2. Set the signal for the button to "olive garden"(no quotes)
   
3. Set the expression for the RegEx to /olive/
   
4. Press the Button
   

Expected: The sound synthesizer says "olive garden"
Actual: Nothing happens

[Dabir]

Have you tried alternate methods of input? It could just be that the button's broken. In fact I think it might be that the button is broken.

[Jfighter]

Ya I tried all of the following with the same signal and RegEx setups and they didn't work.

• Wifi > Signal splitter > RR > Sound
  
• Pressure plate > RR > Sound
  
• Pressure plate > RF > Sound
  
• Microphone > RR > Sound
  
• Microphone > RF > Sound
  

[Wire]

Note: This is probably related to the over-escaping of regex input strings (html and url encoding i think).

[somepotato]

The regex component doesn't accept flags anymore.
Just input the plain regex.

[Z3shep]

The syntax for the RegEx Replace component used to be /find/replace/flags.
Now that RegEx components interpret slashes literally, the syntax to Replace is...
What, exactly?

[ihenn]

Yes, the RegEx replace component no longer has full functionality. It still works, to an extent, by removing whatever string it has matched.

So two things could happen: either re-brand the component as a RegEx Remove Component(and update the default string so as not to confuse people as why it doesn't work); or implement the replace functionality once again. This would be my preferred approach.