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lumpynose · 07-07-2019, 04:39 PM

With regular expressions you can put parenthesis around something to save it then in the replacement text use \1 to insert the saved text. If you use [0-9]+ that matches 1 or more digits so try "eq([0-9]+).jpg" as the Find string and "eq\1.jpg added bit here" for the replacement text.

Also, in the Find text a period matches any single character so you should put a \ in front of it to force it to match the period.

07-07-2019, 04:39 PM	#2
lumpynose Wizard Posts: 1,086 Karma: 6719822 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Palm Pilot M105	With regular expressions you can put parenthesis around something to save it then in the replacement text use \1 to insert the saved text. If you use [0-9]+ that matches 1 or more digits so try "eq([0-9]+).jpg" as the Find string and "eq\1.jpg added bit here" for the replacement text. Also, in the Find text a period matches any single character so you should put a \ in front of it to force it to match the period.