Re: Find and Replace with Wildcards
From: Greg Maxey (gmaxey_at_whamspammvps.org)
Date: 08/08/04
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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:55:10 GMT
Luke,
It may be due to how your example came across, but I can't find anyway to
find and replace all instances.
Using your example, the best I could find was:
Find:
;([!;,]{1,}),( The)
This starts with a semicolon, finds everything but a semicolon and comma up
to a comma, finds the comma, a space and the word The. It groups everything
from the semicolon up to the comma as group 1 and The as group 2. Then we
simply replace the semicolon with itself and reverse the groups
Replace:
;\2\1
Which worked with:
The Cameraman's Revenge, The Tramp, The Adventurer, The Butcher Boy and The
Girl and Her Trust
It missed Birth of a Nation, The/Immigrant, The and Rink, The because there
is no ";" tag at the begining of these lines.
You can pick up these three with
li\>([!,]{1,}), (The)
and
li>\2 \1
That leaves Last Days of Pompei, The
As you can see, there is no common string in your structure to ensure each
instance is picked up. Maybe there is and I just don't see it.
-- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in gmaxey@whamspammvps.org Luke Muehlhauser wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to use find and replace in > Microsoft Word XP with wild cards. I read through > http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm and still wasn't > able to figure it out. > > Here's what I want to do: > > I have a large text file. Here is an excerpt: > -------- > <h2>1910-1919</h2> > <i>20 films seen: 4 feature-length, 16 short</i><ol> > <li>Birth of a Nation, The (1915) > <li>Broken Blossoms (1919) > <li>Immigrant, The (1917) [short] > <li>Easy Street (1917) [short] > <li>Rink, The (1916) [short] > <li>(none yet) > <li>(none yet) > <li>(none yet) > <li>(none yet) > <li>(none yet)</ol> > <b>Also Recommended: </b>Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the > N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911) [short]; Cameraman's > Revenge, The (1912) [short]; Pool Sharks (1915) [short]; Tramp, The > (1915) [short]; Champion, The (1915) [short]; Ask Father (1919) > [short]; <b>Meh: </b>Last Days of Pompeii, The (1913); Intolerance > (1916); For His Son (1912) [short]; Aeroplane Flight and Wreck > (Piloted by M. Cody) (1910) [short]; Girl and Her Trust, The (1912) > [short]; Bangville Police (1913) [short]; By the Sea (1915) [short]; > Butcher Boy, The (1917) [short]; Adventurer, The (1917) [short]; > <b>Garbage: </b> > --------- > > What I want to do is fix it so that all instances of [movie title], > [leading article] are switched to [leading article] [movie title]. > > I turned wildcards on and did a find and replace using the following > values for starters: > > Find (without quotes): "; *; The" > Replace (without quotes): "; The *" > > But, apparently * only works as a wildcard in find, and not replace (I > ended up with "; The *"). > > Does anyone know how to use wild cards in find and replace correctly > to accomplish what I like? Then I will adapt whatever you can tell me > for use with other articles and positions of movie titles (for > example, after <li> and </b> instead of ;). > > THANKS TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP!!!!
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