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Help finding a specific value
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 2:56 am
by RJ
Let's say you have a huge list of text you need to figure out phrase from. You have part of a phrase "Digi**lV*lc*no" but you don't know what's inside the asterisks.
Is there any expression I can use to search an entire piece of text for what that might be?
Re: Help finding a specific value
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 10:25 am
by DigitalVolcano
You can use regular expressions
[a-zA-Z] will match one letter
[a-zA-Z]+ will match 1 or more letters.
e.g.
Re: Help finding a specific value
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 4:29 pm
by RJ
So let's say i'm trying to find out: Di**talV**cano
Would the expression be:
Di[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]talV[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]cano
Re: Help finding a specific value
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 7:40 pm
by DigitalVolcano
That should work. You can test it in the Regular Expresssion tester within the program.
Note your example doesn't actually find asterisks, only letters a-z.
To find any character you can use \S
e.g.