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Find and replace using wildcard
Thank you.
Jan
Jay Freedman wrote:
First make sure the "Use wildcards" option in the More section of the
Replace dialog is checked.
The Find What expression should be
([\(])[0-9]{1,}(,)
and the Replace With expression should be
\1"\2
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm.
I have a lot of lines tlike this
xxxxxx(1, sdas...
xxxxxx(2, sdas...
xxxxxx(3, sdas...
The xxxxx can be anything. It always contains a left parenthesis, a
number and a comma, though. I want to replace all numbers with " to
make the lines look like
xxxxxx(", sdas
xxxxxx(", sdas
xxxxxx(", sdas
The numbers can have more than one digit. I have tried a lot of
combinations, but it just tells me, its an invalid search expression
for patterns.
Jan
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