ReplaceText does not work with regex

[scottone]

I can find text using a Regex (Paragraph.FindAllByPattern function) but
cannot replace text with a Regex (Paragraph.ReplaceText function). Am I missing something?

This matches the text:
$WordDocument.Paragraphs[2].FindAllByPattern('E.*?e',[System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::None)

This uses the same pattern but does not do the replacement:
$WordDocument.Paragraphs[2].ReplaceText('E.*?e','Awesomeness', $false, [System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::None)

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Could it be related to formatting? In theory DocX fixed that in version 1.4.1 (https://github.com/xceedsoftware/DocX/wiki/Release-Notes-v1.4.1) which we use but maybe it requires an additional option? You could try replacing DLL with the new version and seeing if it fixes your issue - the problem is - there were a lot of changes that may break different functionality. Normally I would go and update PSWriteWord to the newest DLL but the license change they did is risky for us and I am struggling whether to make a change or not. I would suggest to maybe use power of PowerShell and just go thru Paragraph yourself, get all the content and do regex in PowerShell rather then pass it to DocX?