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Old 01-20-2014, 11:25 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by John2011 View Post
Thank you all for your help.
I see now why I could not get the F&R to do what I wanted. I missed out two ) ( in the find. I will get my head around Regex one day. (I hope).

TheDucks; your were correct, there were a couple of ".As
I never thought of them until I read your reply.

I did have a back up copy just in case. I have been caught in the past.

Thank you all again.

John P.
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I have been pushing bits around for quite a few years now and I still have not seen them all and have to frequently reach for my backup .

When doing many S&R cleanups, performing them in the wrong order can make life miserable later in the job.
Think patterns and how they chain together
No exact examples:
You fix pattern A
The original Pattern A includes Pattern B, but because you fixed A first, the new B is no longer unique (matches other text that should not be changed)
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