From 6da6a0abe1ccff65e9506000ea3bdda388e016fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Magne Sjaastad <magne.sjaastad@ceetronsolutions.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:58:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] #2212 AppFwk : Allow '[' and ']' in filter field text

---
 .../cafUserInterface/cafPdmUiTreeSelectionEditor.cpp     | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Fwk/AppFwk/cafUserInterface/cafPdmUiTreeSelectionEditor.cpp b/Fwk/AppFwk/cafUserInterface/cafPdmUiTreeSelectionEditor.cpp
index 72a630718b..39460272be 100644
--- a/Fwk/AppFwk/cafUserInterface/cafPdmUiTreeSelectionEditor.cpp
+++ b/Fwk/AppFwk/cafUserInterface/cafPdmUiTreeSelectionEditor.cpp
@@ -453,7 +453,14 @@ void PdmUiTreeSelectionEditor::slotTextFilterChanged()
     QString searchString = m_textFilterLineEdit->text();
     searchString += "*";
 
-    m_proxyModel->setFilterWildcard(searchString);
+    // Escape the characters '[' and ']' as these have special meaning for a search string
+    // To be able to search for vector names in brackets, these must be escaped
+    // See "Wildcard Matching" in Qt documentation
+    searchString.replace("[", "\\[");
+    searchString.replace("]", "\\]");
+
+    QRegExp searcher(searchString, Qt::CaseInsensitive, QRegExp::WildcardUnix);
+    m_proxyModel->setFilterRegExp(searcher);
 
     updateUi();
 }