Wild Card search and replace

crutledge · 06-05-2010, 04:48 PM

The wild card search and replace is very handy, except when searching for the wild card characters ( "?' and "*") themselves. There must be an escape character to allow such searches.

Would one of you folks enlighten me?

Valloric · 06-05-2010, 04:53 PM

I don't think there's an escape character for wildcard matching, but using a character group surely provides the same effect.

"aa[?]" would match against "aa?" but not "aaa". Same thing goes for "[*]".

crutledge · 06-05-2010, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valloric

I don't think there's an escape character for wildcard matching, but using a character group surely provides the same effect.

"aa[?]" would match against "aa?" but not "aaa". Same thing goes for "[*]".

Thank you, sir. I'll give it a try.

06-05-2010, 04:48 PM	#1
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06-05-2010, 04:53 PM	#2
Valloric Created Sigil, FlightCrew Posts: 1,982 Karma: 350515 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Kobo Clara HD	I don't think there's an escape character for wildcard matching, but using a character group surely provides the same effect. "aa[?]" would match against "aa?" but not "aaa". Same thing goes for "[*]".

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