Thread: [Solved] Finding words consisting only of repeated characters
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Old 02-28-2020, 02:59 AM
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You can use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = <([A-Za-z])\1@>
Replace = ^&
This will capture any string of two or more repeated letters that form a whole 'word'.
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