I just wanted to stop and say thanks for the help.   Very embarrassing
that the solution was so simple.   Thanks again

On May 3, 9:56 am, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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