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Hi,
I'm having a greediness problem with Word 2003's wildcards. I'm trying to find each occurrence of the beginning of a line, followed by some text, then ending with "Page " and then a number. Here's an example: This is a Chapter Name Page 13 So with wildcards enabled, I tried ^13?{10,65}Page [0-9]{1,2} The problem there is that Word applies the {10,65} limiter to the entire previous expression, so I get multiple paragraphs selected. In effect, I get from the cursor point to the next Find hit. So I tried placing the '?' in parentheses, I tried using [a-zA-Z ] instead of '?', and none of these brought any hits. That I don't understand. The immediate question is how can I limit my hit to only one paragraph? Thanks for any insight. |
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:43:10 -0700 (PDT), "Paul B." wrote:
Hi, I'm having a greediness problem with Word 2003's wildcards. I'm trying to find each occurrence of the beginning of a line, followed by some text, then ending with "Page " and then a number. Here's an example: This is a Chapter Name Page 13 So with wildcards enabled, I tried ^13?{10,65}Page [0-9]{1,2} The problem there is that Word applies the {10,65} limiter to the entire previous expression, so I get multiple paragraphs selected. In effect, I get from the cursor point to the next Find hit. So I tried placing the '?' in parentheses, I tried using [a-zA-Z ] instead of '?', and none of these brought any hits. That I don't understand. The immediate question is how can I limit my hit to only one paragraph? Thanks for any insight. Use this expression: ^13[!^13]@Page [0-9]{1,2} It says to find a paragraph mark followed by one or more characters that are not paragraph marks, followed by a page number. There is no upper limit on the number of not-paragraph-marks, but you're guaranteed that the found text will all be within one paragraph. -- 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. |
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