Wildcard search

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi Rick

Thanks for your reply. I guess it's a half-implementation, then...sigh.

Roger


On 29/12/2014 2:29 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> FrameMaker 11 doesn't support wildcards on the replacement side. FrameMaker
> 12 supports regular expressions on Find and Change sides.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-366-4017
> rick at frameexpert.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Roger
> Shuttleworth
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 9:24 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Wildcard search
>
> Hello All
>
> I'm using FrameMaker 11.
>
> I have a document containing a lot of number ranges that use a hyphen
> instead of an en-dash; for example, 1-3. I'd like to replace the hyphen
> while preserving the preceding and following numbers.
>
> In Word I'd use a wildcard search for ([0-9])-([0-9]) and replace with
> \1-\2, where \1 and \2 represent the values in the parentheses (and sorry, I
> can't type an en-dash in this message). When I try this with FM it doesn't
> find anything.
>
> How do you preserve the values in FM?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger Shuttleworth
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