At 06:51 AM 3/30/2006, you wrote:
>Would it be possible to implement a simple way to add repeating characters to a RegExp search string?
>I often do searches for lines, starting with a specific character string, followed by a (large) number of any character and ending with another specific string.
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>Example: search for lines starting with 22011, followed by 80 characters and then by 4 numbers.
>Now, I type "^22011" followed by 80 dots. It would be nice to be able to replace those by ".{80}" or something like that.
Chris:
This is already in the works, but not yet ready for release.
As you may know, we just changed RE grouping from our old "{}" to "()". This follows newer RE standards, and "{}" will soon be implemented for repeat counts.
Ted.
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