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05-06-2018, 06:53 PM

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Windows 7 64bit Wildcard replace any string in context with a specified string

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True, in which case one might replace the * in the F/R Find I posted with *{3,6}, for example, to limit the wildcard matches to strings with 3-6 characters.

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