Using find replace box to append occurances

[onepound]

I need to find/replace or append on the end of a images ending eq#.jpg where the # can be either single or double number.

Looking throught the help eq[0-9].jpg and eq[0-9][0-9].jpg work fine to find these occurrance but how do I say append some text at the end of these occurances?

having browsed through
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=237181
it seems this should be easily possible but I'd like to do so by filling in the find replace tool:


a bit like wildcards of ancient times past
obviously what I filled in the replace section did not work!

[lumpynose]

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.

[onepound]

Originally Posted by lumpynose

try "eq([0-9]+).jpg" as the Find string and "eq\1.jpg added bit here" for the replacement text.

that works very well thanks