At 13:47 10/03/2010 -0800, Gary Noop wrote:
Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in
Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following:
lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z.
Example:
(space)mAnderson
replace as
(space)Anderson
I found that I can easily _find_ using:
m[A-Z]
but can't figure out how to replace the 'm' with a space and leave
the following A-Z letter in place.
Any suggestions on how I accomplish this?
Yes: just enclose the part you want to keep in parentheses; you can
then refer to that in the "Replace with" field. Search for:
m([A-Z])
and replace with:
$1
- where both those strings have a leading space, of course. The "$1"
in the "Replace with" field refers to the first (here the only)
parenthesised reference in the "Search for" string. So the replace
string is a space followed by whatever capital letter was matched by
your [A-Z].
You will need to have both "Match case" and "Regular expressions"
ticked, of course - but you knew that.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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