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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / February 2007wildcard equivalent for ^w
What is the wildcard equivalent for searching for ^w (whitespace)? Of course, when I use ^w with the wildcard search option, I receive an error. I used "[^09,]" but this only returned one tab or space character at a time and I need to be able to find multiple whitespaces together (whether it be tabs or spaces), the same as searching for ^w does when the "Use Wildcards" option is unchecked.  SignatureBryan Hi Bryan, [^32^t^s]@ should be equivalent to ^w (^32 being a space... you could also type it in; ^t or ^9 a tab; ^s or ^0160 a non-breaking space). @ matches "1 or more occurrences". Klaus > What is the wildcard equivalent for searching for ^w (whitespace)? Of > course, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > is > unchecked. Looks like a search for [^32^t^s]@ only gets one character at a time. SignatureBryan > Hi Bryan, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > is > > unchecked. Use [^32^t^s]{1,} instead Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Looks like a search for [^32^t^s]@ only gets one character at a time. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>> -- >>> Bryan That worked, thanks, Graham! Can you give me an explanation of what the "{1,}" does; or better yet, where I can please find a good tutorial to learn more about "normal expressions"? (assuming that that's what this subject is called) SignatureBryan > Use [^32^t^s]{1,} instead > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >>> -- > >>> Bryan {1,} means one or more of the preceding characters. For the tutorial see http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > That worked, thanks, Graham! Can you give me an explanation of what > the "{1,}" does; or better yet, where I can please find a good [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>>>> -- >>>>> Bryan That worked, thanks, Graham! Can you give me an explanation of what the "{1,}" does; or better yet, where I can please find a good tutorial to learn more about "normal expressions"? (assuming that that's what this terminology is called) Also, is there a way to search out a whole word with wildcards? SignatureBryan > Use [^32^t^s]{1,} instead > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >>> -- > >>> Bryan Sorry about the duplicate post. "Regular expressions" is the correct term--anything but regular! SignatureBryan > That worked, thanks, Graham! Can you give me an explanation of what the > "{1,}" does; or better yet, where I can please find a good tutorial to learn [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > >>> -- > > >>> Bryan Through further research, answered my own questions: "{1,}" = one or more characters matching the preceding criteria. Sources: I started off with http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/l/blregexa.htm which had some examples and other references. The linking article there that helped me most was http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/090199-1.shtml. SignatureBryan > That worked, thanks, Graham! Can you give me an explanation of what the > "{1,}" does; or better yet, where I can please find a good tutorial to learn [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > >>> -- > > >>> Bryan |
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