Thanks Tony. In my mind, I told Word to find the 122 characters in the
bracketed class, and then go on to find the .com. But I guess Word
doesn't agree, and it gets the final say. I don't believe PERL
RegEx's, which I'm more used to, work that way.
p.
On Aug 10, 11:07*am, "Tony Jollans" wrote:
The reason it didn't work is that the characters ., c, o, and m are all
matched within the existing pattern and, after Word has found up to 122 of
them, it does not then find .com. Word's wildcard pattern matching is not a
full RegEx, and it isn't looking ahead for .com.
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Enjoy,
Tony
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"Paul B." wrote in message
...
Wow, did that nail it! My continuing problem is that I don't know why
my expression ending in '.com' didn't work, or why 'MY GRACE *way.com'
was "non-greedy" in its findings, because many times I've found Word's
expressions to be greedy, capturing even multiple pages.
In any case, this makes the whole thing a lot simpler, and it's what I
will try first next time. Thanks much.
p.
On Aug 10, 5:18 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Depending upon what else is in the document you could search for
MY GRACE *way.com
seehttp://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
or you could use a macro
Dim sFindText As String
Dim r As Range
Dim i As Long
sFindText = "MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT"
Set r = ActiveDocument.Range
With r.Find
Do While .Execute(findText:=sFindText, Forward:=True) = True
r.End = r.Paragraphs(1).Range.End
r.MoveEnd wdWord, 21
If r.Characters.Last = Chr(32) Then
r.End = r.End - 1
End If
'Do what you want with the found text - r - here e.g.
MsgBox r
r.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Loop
End With
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My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org
"Paul B." wrote in message
....
I'm almost there on a search expression, but the last step is
confounding me. Here's what I'm looking for:
MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU 9/47
All Rights Reserved - The Good Way Publishing - 2010
http://www.the-good-way.com
This expression:
MY GRACE[a-zA-Z0-9/ ^13\-:.]{11,122}
Finds this:
MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU 9/47
All Rights Reserved - The Good Way Publishing - 2010
http://www.the-good-way.com
of person he
So I thought this would be easy to resolve by adding "com" to the end
of my expression:
MY GRACE[a-zA-Z0-9/ ^13\-:.]{11,122}.com
thus limiting the find at that point. But that expression is not found
at all, which totally stumps me. I would appreciate any insight into
this.
I'm in Word 03 on Windows XP.
Thanks,
p.