Grep scripting bug?

The following grep search works fine from within Indesign (finds all prices that don't have the "€" symbol at the end): ((\d+)?(\.?))+(\d{1,3}),(-)?(\d+)?(?!(.*)?(€)) If I try to translate the same search expression into a script, it doesn't work anymore: ((\\d+)?(\\.?))+(\\d{1,3}),(-)?(\\d+)?(?!(.*)?(€)) How could this be possible? Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug of the software? Any suggestions would be much appreciated Thanks in advance

CS 5.5 win7
works here!? perhaps a mistake in scriptimplementation?
app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat="((\\d+)?(\\.?))+(\\d{1,3}),(-)?(\\d+)?(?!(.*)?(€))";
toFind = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
alert(toFind.length)

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