On May 03, 2012, at 12:13, steven d wrote:

> I have a small library database I am trying to merge.   I want to
> introduce a dump from one library file into another.   I don't want to
> use the Book ids, a three digit number, so I want to pull all of them
> out.    I want to do a serch and replace using the grep option
> (checked) on my search.  I want to include the commas on either side
> of the search and reduce the replace to a single comma
> 
> in my "search" box i have used ,/d/d/d, ,###,  /,/d/d/d/,

You need to use backslashes rather than forward slashes; from the table on page 
164 of the current PDF manual:

  \d    any digit (0-9)

so 

Find:       ,\d\d\d,
Replace:    ,

should do what you want. :-)


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
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