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Question: replacing placeholder text

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:15 am
by MaxBlack
Forgive the noob post, guys. I'm looking for a s&r tool that will replace text in a text (.TXT) doc like so.

I have a million text bits such as (see (amidlate0806charltonrios)), (see (a021007charltondeathpen)), and (see (a031307leahyissatestify), (a031607fieldingdelay) and (a032007fieldingcompromise)).

I'd like to use the following search phrase (see (a ... )) or something similar, using the beginning and end snippets, and delete them all. Can TextCrawler do this?

Thanks!

Re: Question: replacing placeholder text

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 9:38 pm
by MaxBlack
Consider this question withdrawn. You might actually answer questions that potential users ask.

Re: Question: replacing placeholder text

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:57 am
by DigitalVolcano
Something like the this Regex:

Code: Select all

\(see \([a].*?\)\)
and replace with nothing will remove the expressions you mention.

Sorry it takes a few days to reply, but it's been a holiday here, and the non-free support usually gets answered first .