Contextual searches for Find and Replace

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Contextual searches for Find and Replace

08-23-2018, 06:29 AM

macropod

Windows 7 64bit Contextual searches for Find and Replace

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For the example you gave, use a wildcard Find/Replace, with:
Find =([0-9])-([0-9])
Replace = \1–\2

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