wildcard search and add (not replace) sequential numbers in front

equalizer88 · #1 07-11-2015, 08:17 PM

My data is 1-3 lines unique code that is first element in data segment. May Not be new paragraph. First field is 1-5 digits comma and then 1 digit and comma

Original File
Line 1 123,2,text1, text2,....
Line 2 ....text 10
Line 3 145,3,text1....text 5
Line 4 156, 2, text 1...text5
Line 5 ......................text10

Line 6 ......................text15
...........
Line 7000 4160,3,text1......text4

Desired Output - Search for ([0-9],[0-9]) and insert (001) before search term and (002) before next search term

Output File
Line 1 (001) 123,2,text1, text2,....
Line 2 ....text 10
Line 3 (002) 145,3,text1....text 5
Line 4 (003) 156, 2, text 1...text5
Line 5 ......................text10
Line 6 ......................text15
Line 7 (004) 160,3,text1......text4

Maybe 1000 pages

I used https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...ight-text.html as template and have just seach working.

Code:

Sub Wildcard_Search_Insert_Nums()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Text = "([0-9],[0-9])"
  With .Replacement
    .Text = "TEST^&XXX"
    .ClearFormatting
    .Highlight = True
  End With
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindContinue
  .Format = True
  .MatchWildcards = True
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Need to an alternate method for search/replace with a loop line by line(?)
with n=n+1 inside loop?

Really frustrated. Would appreciate any help. Obviously can use C program to do this but want functionality for all users, not 3 machines out of hundreds that have compilers.

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