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11-07-2017, 03:44 PM

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Windows 10 Wildcards: searching for multiple words / expressions close to each other

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I hope this is not wrong, but I think I have found an answer and I'd gladly contribute it to the knowledge base. I am asking the administrators to please remove it if it is wrong.

I had fairly good results with this type of wildcard:

Code:

word1[!^013]*word2

. I am not quite sure yet of whether it only stops at the paragraph end, but it seems promising.

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