Wildcard search

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi David

Thanks for your reply. Either option would work to some extent, but 
there will be some work involved. Hyphens are intended in certain 
phrases, e.g. state-of-the-art. And I have a lot of files, so saving as 
MIF would be a pain. Pity; I was hoping to do something at the book 
level, but it seems to be not an option.

I could save as Word docs, make the changes, then reopen in FM. (No, I'm 
kidding!)

Roger

On 29/12/2014 4:10 PM, David Artman wrote:
> Roger, do you have many instances where a hyphen *is* intended? If not,
>   you could brute-force replace all then go back and tune those you
> didn't want replaced (e.g., if they're, say, part numbers in a handful
> of tables).
> Alternately, export to MIF and use any programmer's text editor (e.g.,
> Notepad++) to do a regular expression search and replace, similar to
> your Word example. Then open MIF and re-save as FM.
> HTH;
> David
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     From: Roger Shuttleworth <shuttie27 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:shuttie27 at gmail.com>>
>     Date: Mon, December 29, 2014 9:23 am
>
>     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
>