Is there a way to find CAPITALIZED words in a doc?

macropod · #8 01-28-2014, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisBrewster

Below is the string I use to find acronyms. It also finds acronyms that include digits-- the problem being that it also stops on plain old numbers. See if it does you any good.

[ETAOINSRHDLUCMFYWGPBVKXQJZ1234567890_-]{2,}

You should be able to achieve the same with:
[A-Z0-9_-]{2,}
or, if your acronyms always start with a letter:
[A-Z][A-Z0-9_-]{1,}
As for the numbers issue, if you mean it doesn't find complete numbers with thousands separators & decimal points, that's because neither of those is provided for in your Find expression. Problem is, though, that if you do so, it'll also pick up commas and periods.

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