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Find and replace using wildcard
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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Find and replace using wildcard
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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:06:06 +0100, "Jan Kronsell" wrote: 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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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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