Any way to make MS Word wildcard search greedier? 论题张贴者: Samuel Murray
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Samuel Murray 
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G'day everyone
I have a macro that changes the style of certain pieces of text. The macro works fine except that it matches the smallest possible match instead of the largest possible match. I understand that this is a feature of MS Word's regex -- it is non-greedy. However, is there some way to make it greedy?
For example, if my text is "one one one one two three one two three" and I want everything from the first "one" to the very last "one" to be selected, how can... See more G'day everyone
I have a macro that changes the style of certain pieces of text. The macro works fine except that it matches the smallest possible match instead of the largest possible match. I understand that this is a feature of MS Word's regex -- it is non-greedy. However, is there some way to make it greedy?
For example, if my text is "one one one one two three one two three" and I want everything from the first "one" to the very last "one" to be selected, how can I do that?
I don't need to worry about matching too much, because I have already marked some text as highlighted and I run my regex only on highlighted text, but I do want the match to be as greedy as possible within that text. I don't know in advance how many matches for a pattern there will be in any given search.
Thanks
Samuel
Oh, I'm using Word 2003, by the way. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Oscar Martin
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| Use of curly braces | Mar 4, 2013 |
Try using curly braces as in the example:
(one ){1,}
The comma (or separator) may vary according to regional OS settings. This will find all instances of the term between brackets (from 1 to n).
Oscar
| | | | | That's not what Samuel was trying to do | Mar 4, 2013 |
Oscar Martin wrote:
Try using curly braces as in the example:
(one ){1,}
The comma (or separator) may vary according to regional OS settings. This will find all instances of the term between brackets (from 1 to n).
Oscar
I believe that what Samuel was trying to do is not "finding all instances of the term", but finding a string ending with the furthest instance of the term.
i.e, he wants a greedy regex search that, when searching
"one one one one two three one two three"
finds "one one one one two three one",
and not "one" repeatedly.
This is, AFAIK not possible using the MS Word subset of regex, but it is indeed possible in other regex implementations; for example, in Notepad++, this would be very easy to accomplish by using the regex search .*one
[Edited at 2013-03-05 04:20 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray
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Riccardo Schiaffino wrote:
I believe that what Samuel was trying to do is not "finding all instances of the term", but finding a string ending with the furthest instance of the term.
Indeed. What I want to do is to mark tags as external if they hug the edges of the segment, but not if they're elsewhere in the segment.
Suppose I have this:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2}Some text here{3} and here.
...then I want a way to tell Word to select this:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2}
...so that I can mark it all as external text. At this moment, I can mark [segment 1]{0} as external text but I have to mark {1}{2} as internal text because I have no way of selecting it while marking stuff as external text. I can't simply mark all tags as external -- I only want to mark tags as external if they hug the edges of the segment.
Hmm, bummer.
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| Are you referring to {UT} tags at the segments start in Wf Pro | Mar 7, 2013 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2}Some text here{3} and here.
...then I want a way to tell Word to select this:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2}
Are you by any chance referring to {UT} tags at the segments start in Wf Pro?
| | | | Samuel Murray
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主题发起人 | No... the format I use this macro on is TTX | Mar 7, 2013 |
trhanslator wrote: Samuel Murray wrote:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2}Some text here{3} and here.
...then I want a way to tell Word to select this:
[segment 1]{0}{1}{2} Are you by any chance referring to {UT} tags at the segments start in Wf Pro?
No, I used curly brackets here only for illustration. The format I use the macro on is TTX.
| | | | | What you want to do is possible | Mar 7, 2013 |
What you want to achieve is possible but it needs some real VBA coding. You could direct a request to the Word VBA forums that exist.
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