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Old 02-14-2011, 04:18 AM   #1
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Help with regex to remove specific strings of numbers

I have tried to follow the tuition and help posts here but I wonder if someone can help with a search and replace string for my problem

I am looking to remove five figure numbers that occur throughout the books

In the specific book i am looking at they run from 03000 to 32983

I could see how to remove all numbers from the tutorial but i need something in regex that says

find all

(numbers between 03000 and 32983)

it is the specific range I am having a problem with


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Old 02-14-2011, 04:21 AM   #2
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You absolutely cannot expand this to all five-digit numbers? It has to be that specific range?
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Old 02-14-2011, 05:38 AM   #3
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I came up with

\b(0[3-9]\d\d\d|[1-2]\d\d\d\d|3[0-1]\d\d\d|32\d[0-7]\d|3298[0-3])\b
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i had not thought of that. It would probably be ok to remove all 5 integer number strings in the book or indeed different 5 figure strings in other books i still have to look at

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thank you i will try it



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to remove ALL five digit numbers
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\b\d{5}\b
replace with nothing (you may end up with some double-spacing)
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Just \d{5} ought to do the trick, as well.
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Thank you both

the regex from Perkin does the job and even I can see how to extend it to 4 and 6 figure integers. I had worried that this 'all numbers' approach would remove real detail in the book and not just the silly footnote system in use. Fortunately real numbers have a comma separating each three characters therefore are not caught by the formula

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Just \d{5} ought to do the trick, as well.
Yep.

There was a reason for the \b's, but I can't think what it was now.
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Yep.

There was a reason for the \b's, but I can't think what it was now.
So, are you facetiously saying that the \b's were to catch numbers that did NOT contain commas since that would split a word boundary?

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So, are you facetiously saying that the \b's were to catch numbers that did NOT contain commas since that would split a word boundary
No, I just can't remember the reason, if there indeed, was one.
(It may have just been a rollover from the ranged expression)
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