Thread: [Solved] Wildcards: searching for multiple words / expressions close to each other
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Old 11-08-2017, 04:56 AM
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The expression I posted would find any two instances of the whole word 'word' in the same paragraph.

If you want to find Tolstoy before Karenina in a paragraph, you'd use:
Find = <(Tolstoy)>[!^13]@<Karenina>
The < & > symbols are there to ensure you get whole-word matches only.
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