setUpComplexFindReplace() does not find regex strings

[kvella]

I wrote an extension to do multiple Find & Replaces by calling
setUpComplexFindReplace() and replaceAll() and so far everything works fine, as
long as I'm not trying to match a RegEx string.

Let's say I'm trying to find the ampersand symbol and convert it to an HTML
character entity. If I open the Find & Replace dialog and save the query, DW
saves the following code. Loading this query in the Find & Replace dialog works
fine and any stand-alone (with a space before and after) &s are found.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dwquery>
<queryparams matchcase="false" ignorewhitespace="false"
useregexp="true" wholeword="false" />
<find>
<qtext qname="\s&amp;\s" qraw="true"></qtext>
</find>
<replace action="replaceText" param1="&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;"
param2=""/>
</dwquery>

However, passing the above as a parameter to setUpComplexFindReplace() will
not find anything:

dreamweaver.setUpComplexFindReplace('<dwquery><que ryparams matchcase="false"
ignorewhitespace="false" useregexp="true" wholeword="false"
/><find><qtext qname="\s&amp;\s" qraw="true"></qtext></find><replace
action="replaceText" param1="&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;"
param2=""/></dwquery>');
dw.replaceAll();

Is this is a bug in the API, and is there any workaround?

[kvella]

Make sure you escape all backslash characters: qname="\s&amp;\s" must read qname="\\s&amp;\\s"