Find and replace (using wildcards) (97)

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Hi

I’m using wildcards, and want to insert a backslash into the replace panel. I tried a double backslash (because the backslash is a special symbol) but it complains I have an out-of-range group number.

Anynone know how to do it?
Dale

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When all else fails, use the ASCII value of the character. For a backslash, that’s ^92.

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Thanks, Jay. So simple!
Dale

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Hi Dale,

should work fine, too, to find backslashes in wildcard searches.

The pesky “out of range group number” message comes up when you have some group (like 1 or 2) in your replacement text, but no corresponding group (= bracketed stuff) in your search text.

This (unnecessary) message often comes up if you select “Edit > Find…”, and still have some sticky old replacement text from a previous search around.

Klaus

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Thanks, Klaus

If “Use wildcards” is selected, and the Find string is “aaa” (without the quotes), and the Replace string is “” (without the quotes), I get “The Replace With text contains a group number which is out of range”.

Confused? I am.
Dale

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Sorry Dale! I get that error message so often that I didn’t read your question carefully enough. In the replacement text, I would have expected to work also (as far as I can see, that is the only character that would have to be “escaped” in the replacement text).

Should be worth posting to the bug hunters at Microsoft support.

Klaus

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