Compile Replacement Issue - non-regex

[NorthboundTrain]

OSX: 10.8.5
Scrivener: 2.5 (25239)

This one may be “as designed”, though it doesn’t make total sense to me.

Compiling into a MOBI (if that matters) with replacements. The source text is:

Now is the time for all <{}><{{evil}}> men to come to the aid of their country.

I have two non-regex replacements defined:

Replace: <{<$@>}> With: $@
Replace: <{{$@}}> With:

My expected output is:

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

But what I get is:

Now is the time for all good<{{evil}}> men to come to the aid of their country.

The idea is that I have two different versions of text and I only want one of them during each compile; if I wanted the second text, I would use this, instead:

Replace: <{<$@>}> With:
Replace: <{{$@}}> With: $@

I tried a single space as the “with” string, with the same effect. It seems that if I don’t put the “$@” in the replacement string then the whole thing is ignored. I would think that the condition of finding what to replace should not be dependent on what I was replacing it with. I tried with regex’s next and had a different problem (which I’ll post separately).

Thanks!

[NorthboundTrain]

Since regex seems to be plain-text-only, that makes this option more important to me, since it does retain formatting correctly. Any chance that it can be made to work?

[KB]

I’ve added this to the list for enhancement. Currently, replacements using the $@ pattern only occur if both the “Replace” and “With” fields have the $@ patten in them, otherwise they are ignored. I’ll change it in a future version so that the “With” field does not require the pattern so that you can replace patterns with arbitrary text or remove them entirely.

[NorthboundTrain]

Thanks, Keith!