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* [https://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_regular_expressions.htm Perl Regular Expressions] | * [https://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_regular_expressions.htm Perl Regular Expressions] | ||
* [https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm Using Wildcards in Word] | |||
Revision as of 21:00, 19 January 2020
Find everything up to a tab
[^\t]+
Find capital letter, period, space, capital letter, period.
([A-Z]\.)[ ]([A-Z]\.)
Kill the space by using this for the replacement field:
$1$2
Find digit, period, space, digit.
([0-9]\.)[ ]([0-9])
Kill the space by using this for the replacement field:
$1$2
Perl: find uppercase words.
\b[[:upper:]]{2,}\b
find capital letter at the end of a line, insert period before newline
(\s[[:upper:]])\n \1\.^p
find period, capital letter at the end of a line
(\.[[:upper:]])\n
find lowercase characters one-at-a-time
([a-z])
\s\(([0-9]{4})
\s[[:upper:]]+\r
\L\1\n -- lowercases everything
\L2\1\n -- inserts 2, space, lowercase of the string
\L$2\1\n -- does not insert 2, lowercases string
\U\L\1\n -- lowercases everything
find ch.vv and change it to ch:vv:
^([0-9]+^).^([0-9]+^) = find things like 23.16 ^1:^2 = change the period into a colon 23:16
find M-dash, space, 4-digit number
(\—[ ][0-9]{4})
find footnote marker, period; replace with footnote marker
search: (^2).
replace: \1
Links
* Perl Regular Expressions
* Using Wildcards in Word