Using wildcards to highlight certain text

macropod · #16 05-12-2019, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Cardin

I use this, checked the wildcards check box, pressed Replace All and it responded: "All done. We made 54 replacements".

However there are only 32 instances of [inaudible 12:34] (with varying time stamps) in the document, and none of them had been highlighted in the chosen colour (yellow).

Once again, that implies the content isn't as you described... For example, perhaps there's a space before 'inaudible'

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Cardin

When I did the same with the wildcards check box unchecked it responded: "All done. We made 33 replacements".

Without the 'use wildcards' option checked, such a Find could only ever find strings that were literally '\[<*> [0-9]@:[0-9]@\]'! I doubt you have any such strings and that any were found.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Cardin

In this document, which is one of many transcriptions I do, I have variables such as [voices overlap 12:34] and [wordguess 12:34] where I make a guess at an uncertain word.

Again, that is not what you described in post #1, where your post implied the presence of a single word. I suspect, too, that [wordguess 12:34] is either [ wordguess 12:34] or [word guess 12:34]; otherwise it would have been found.

Unless you describe accurately what you're dealing with, all you're leaving us with is a guessing game no-one here is interested in playing.

macropod · #17 05-12-2019, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Cardin

Just discovered, when I press Find Next, it highlights in grey perfectly the limits of each example including all varied texts, as follows:

[inaudible 04:22]

[in England 05:34]

[inaudible 06:07]

[voices overlap 07:21]

...and so on.

In which case, unless you messed up the Replace part and/or the default highlighting, they'd all be highlighted.

NaomiQld · #18 05-12-2022, 03:29 AM

For anyone else curious about this - as I was - I have just worked out an easy way to do this. I have just finished a massive transcript and also wanted to highlight the timestamps, e.g. "The quick brown fox [0:04:10] lazy dog, but I only want the numbers highlighted. This is how I did it -
A simple Search and Replace:

Find: ^#:^#^#:^#^#
Replace with ^&
Format: Highlight

And then for extra efficiency, I've made it a macro to run at the end of of my document.

macropod · #19 05-12-2022, 04:56 PM

That was already described in post #4...

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