From a49990c2667a3d6ba7c1fa4c4607b47d4ce0491a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jolan Oubrier <jolan.oubrier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:31:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: issue #4955 wrong behaviour of regex for sway/window
 'rewrite'

---
 src/util/rewrite_string.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/rewrite_string.cpp b/src/util/rewrite_string.cpp
index 3f6ae4ca..8c377d3f 100644
--- a/src/util/rewrite_string.cpp
+++ b/src/util/rewrite_string.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ std::string rewriteString(const std::string& value, const Json::Value& rules) {
         // malformated regexes will cause an exception.
         // in this case, log error and try the next rule.
         const std::regex rule{it.key().asString(), std::regex_constants::icase};
-        if (std::regex_match(value, rule)) {
+        if (std::regex_match(res, rule)) {
           res = std::regex_replace(res, rule, it->asString());
         }
       } catch (const std::regex_error& e) {