Need help using WildCard Find & Replace

[Cayce]

Hello, Forum;

I've got some massive documents to update and need to be able to change elements that fall into a pattern, while leaving text already in place untouched. For instance, I need to change the </p> tag in this statement:
Tuesday: (This text will be different each time) </p>
to
Tuesday: (Variable Text) <br />

In the Find What field I put:
Tuesday:*\</p\>
Which found all instances of
Tuesday: (Variable Text) </p>

But when I put this in the replace field:
Tuesday:*<br />
the (Variable Text) was replaced in each instance by the asterisk.

I need to identify the text string by the word "Tuesday" and the "</p>" tag, replace the "</p>" tag, but leave the variable text between the two intact. I can't seem to do it.

Thanks for any help.



Cayce

[macropod]

Try a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = (Tuesday:*)\</p\>
Replace = \1<br />