Regex over 700 matches in a long doc

totoMSOF · #1 03-03-2019, 03:28 PM

It seems to work well for the sample I tried, with a third of my whole doc and the sumary, but it didn't work with the entire doc (e.g. too long: more than 5 minutes without stopping).

But I'll make another try later, and I'll come back after studying the code because I guess I'll have many questions...

Thanks for the help.

macropod · #2 03-03-2019, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by totoMSOF

It seems to work well for the sample I tried, with a third of my whole doc and the sumary, but it didn't work with the entire doc (e.g. too long: more than 5 minutes without stopping).

Taking more than 5 minutes is hardly evidence of "it didn't work". Inserting a DoEvents command in the loop and triggering it periodically might speed things up, though, by giving Word some breathing space for housekeeping. For example:

Code:

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim i As Long, StrNt As String
With ActiveDocument.Range
  With .Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Text = "\(\[[!\(\[]@\][!\(]@\)"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindStop
    .Format = False
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Execute
  End With
  Do While .Find.Found
    i = i + 1
    StrNt = .Text
    .Text = vbNullString
    .Footnotes.Add .Duplicate, , StrNt
    If i Mod 50 = 0 Then DoEvents
    .Find.Execute
  Loop
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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