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Old 11-07-2014, 09:26 PM
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Hello, i have some problems with repeated characters, for example some word said
Code:
wwoorrdd or WWWWoordd or ----wwwooorrdd
, i didn't know how much characters are repeated or wich one they are, i tried with wildcards but i don't know how said that is the same chracter i tried with


Code:
(?){2,}
repleace:\1
but it look for any character so it see
Code:
tp
like a posibility, anyone can help me please thz
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Old 11-07-2014, 09:50 PM
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You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = ([A-Za-z]){2,}
Replace = \1
Do note that this will also change valid words, like 'committee' to 'comite'...
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Old 11-07-2014, 10:10 PM
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Thz for your answer i think it work for me, i will exclude comonly repeated characters from interval, and search it manually, thank you
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Old 11-08-2014, 12:46 AM
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