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Originally Posted by MerlinMama
Well, it seems to work great! I'm not that good at most of the wildcards (can never figure out what the ? is used for. I can figure out the 'long' way, or I need it spelled out.
Unless I know for certain what will come up (and there is often other text with <strong> that I don't want changed) I don't usually use 'Replace All' so this works well for me. I only had one file to work with at the moment, but I'm waiting on a few more, so I'll have a better idea.
Still, it seems to be what I'm looking for.
Thank you so much!
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? = not greedy (don't try for
more )
Your original pattern only looked for Letters. A string with
Anything else would have failed.
Brute force can work or it can grab way too much
IMHO try and include a 'limiter' (only appears in
that string) in your pattern