Re: [StrongED] StrongED advanced search and replace.

[Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Dec 2011  Tony Moore <old_coaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 22 Dec 2011, Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I'm sruggling with StrongEd's advanced search and replace. I have a
>> fairly large text file in which I want to remove a whole lot of
>> strings of the form [****], where the **** bit contains alphabetic
>> characters, upper and lower case, spaces and full stops.


> Try    "[" { ? | ' ' | '.' }+ "]"

Many thanks, Tony, but I think that just proves that the syntax of 
advanced search passeth my understanding :-(

Problem solved another way, or in fact two other ways; see my other 
posting.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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