Thread: [Solved] Wild card confusion
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Old 08-22-2018, 02:21 PM
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Your 1st Find expression doesn't find 'Al Framly' because you've specified there must be at least two characters between the starting letter and the space, whereas that example has only one.

Your 2nd Find expression doesn't doesn't work because of the[*]. Changing that to just * would work, after a fashion, but the results aren't what you'd want.

I doubt you'd want matches with any of [\]^_`, either, which is what [A-z] would give you. Try any of:
(<[!O][A-Za-z]{1,}) ([A-Za-z]{1,})^13
(<[!O][A-Za-z]@) ([A-Za-z]{1,})^13
(<[!O][A-Za-z]{1,}) ([A-Za-z]@)^13
(<[!O][A-Za-z]@) ([A-Za-z]@)^13
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