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On 8/9/11, Alan Dow wrote:
>At 12:57 PM -0700 6/8/11, Bob Stern wrote:
>>Why are you using PowerFind Pro instead of PowerFind? The bubble-shaped tokens in PowerFind completely eliminate the problem of literal text being treated as RegEx commands (i.e., metacharacters).
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>And they also require you to use the relatively inefficient input method of menu click and drag.
>Call me a dinosaur, but PowerFind Pro is much easier if you know the syntax.
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>Bob, this is definitely a bug.
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>You could work around it using character class syntax:
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>Find and Replace "[.][.]+ *","Š","Ea"
Philip Spaelti's suggestion (single quotes rather than double) solved the particular problem, but I'm having others (almost all dealing with metacharacters and regular text being confused -- this is clearly a MESS in NWP 2.0), so this is another useful trick to have in my collection. It will doubtless help me with the other headaches. Thanks for this.
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Bob Waltz
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"The one thing we learn from history --
is that no one ever learns from history."
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