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Re: [StrongED] StrongED advanced search and replace.
On 24 Dec 2011 Tony Moore <old_coaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2011, Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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 :-(
> It's not _that_ complicated!
> "[" "]" bookends the search for
> { }+ one or more characters from
> ? the predefined set A-Za-z
> | or
> ' ' the set comprising space
> | or
> '.' the set comprising full stop
Many thanks for this explanation, and sorry for the delay in replying;
Christmas was busy here! I've now gone back to the Help file, and can
now identify all of these things, though, to someone who didn't
understand initially, I doubt if I would have found them without
Tony's help. I've safely stored this message alongside StrongED for
future reference.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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