Re: regular expression doesn't detect set pattern

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Here is more information on trying Regular Expressions in VBA:

http://www.j.nurick.dial.pipex.com/Code/index.htm

One downside is that they rely on VBScripting or Windows Scripting which
won't work in MacWord VBA.


Thanks for the suggestion, Russ. For searching, I use wildcards also but I
would like to use regular expressions since they're better for evaluating
(not searching for) text so that I don't have to do something like

If Selection=chr(13) or selection=chr(10)

if I don't know if the end-of-line character will be a soft or hard break. I
would prefer to take advantage of pattern matching rather than a specific
character. I've never been successful, for example, in writing

if selection="^p"

but I use ^p all the time for searching. If you know of a better way for
evaluating a selection, I'll readily welcome the suggestion.

--
Russ

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