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Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2006 09:27:05 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:1157041625.494469.160010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> in sci.lang:
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> > Paul J Kriha wrote:
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> [...]
>
> >> Does FrameMaker have a similar wildcard moniker?
>
> > Yep!
>
> > You can search for:
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> > any number of characters *
> > spaces or punctuation |
> > any one character ?
> > beginning of a line ^
> > end of a line $
> > any one of [ab]
> > any except [^ab]
> > any from-to [a-f]
>
> > Though I don't see why you'd want to search ^ or $.
>
> <chuckle> I'm reminded of an earlier topic: all of these
> except the 2nd and 3rd are standard regular expressions.
Really? Searching for Any Character isn't a "standard regular
expression"?
And why would you want to search for a line start or end? It would
never take you more than one line away!
(And, of course, there are all the special characters you can search
with \ codes, like \t for tab, \p for paragraph, etc.
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