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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
I tried a wildcard Find/Replace:
-- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
You must enter into the Replace box exactly what it is that you want to be
used as the replacement Though, you could have used ([ ]{4}) [0-9]{2} in the Find what control and then \1\1 a in the Replace with control -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
You must enter into the Replace box exactly what it is that you want to be
used as the replacement Though, you could have used ([ ]{4}) [0-9]{2} in the Find what control and then \1\1 a in the Replace with control -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Hi Ed from AZ,
You can't use the character count expression in the Replace field - you need to explicitly input the # characters or, as Doug has done, employ a suitable expression from the Find field. -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Hi Ed from AZ,
You can't use the character count expression in the Replace field - you need to explicitly input the # characters or, as Doug has done, employ a suitable expression from the Find field. -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Others have responded to the immediate issue, but see also
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Others have responded to the immediate issue, but see also
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ... I tried a wildcard Find/Replace: -- Find: 5 spaces, any combination of 2 numbers, a period ( {5,})[0-9]{2,}. -- Replace: 9 spaces, then "a." ( {9})a. Find worked. Replace gave me: " {9}a." I gave up trying to code it and just typed 9 spaces! 8/ Is there something special I needed to do in the Replace box? Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Thanks, Doug, macropod, and Graham. I've tried to master the wildcard
Find - but forgot to spend time on Replace! (Other than the ^13 - ^p gotcha that was explicitly called out.) Cheers! Ed |
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Help with wildcard Replace syntax, please?
Thanks, Doug, macropod, and Graham. I've tried to master the wildcard
Find - but forgot to spend time on Replace! (Other than the ^13 - ^p gotcha that was explicitly called out.) Cheers! Ed |
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