Use of Wildcard

Vijay · Post by **Vijay** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:35 pm

Hello, i have multiple files having records such as below.
numericInput name="NumericInput5" text1
numericInput name="NumericInput6" text1
numericInput name="NumericInput7" text1

Here, I want to use wild card on number 5,6,7 and so on. Can someone please send me the exact syntax ?

Thanks,
Vijay

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:56 pm

Well, you more or less almost specified it correctly yourself:

numericInput name="NumericInput\d+" text1

\d = [0-9] = any single digit
+ = any consecutive string of at least one

This matches any positive number. I assume you also want 10 and further to match.

Boondoggle · Post by **Boondoggle** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:37 am

How can i replace anything between paranthesis "test(123)" with "test(321)" ?

Boondoggle · Post by **Boondoggle** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:44 am

ie im thinking of something like "test(*)" as in DOS

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:25 pm

Because parentheses have a special meaning, if you want to match the actual characters, you'll have to use an escape character \ in front of them.

Figure out what this does and why.

Find:
test$(\d)(\d)(\d)$

Replace by:
test($3$2$1)

In the Replace by expression, you can just use the actual characters. You may have found out what $3$2$1 does and also what function the unescaped parentheses perform.

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:27 pm

"Anything between parentheses"
=
An opening parenthesis
+
Any characters not being the closing parenthesis
+
The closing parenthesis =

$[^$]*\)

Boodoggle · Post by **Boodoggle** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:52 pm

Ah! Worked perfectly! Very useful! Thank you!

Boondoggle · Post by **Boondoggle** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:53 pm

hmm might use textcrawler to correct my handle