Patrick,

Thanks for your help,

Howard

On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 5:24:21 pm UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote:

> On 3/16/22 at 3:10 PM, [email protected] (Howard) wrote:
>
> >In *Find: ^(\d+?)\.1 *what is the purpose of the question mark? 
> >I know what *\d+* does.
> >
>
> It makes matching "non-greedy", so the pattern won't try to 
> extend beyond the first possible match.
>
>
> [For details, please see "Non-Greedy Quantifiers" in Chapter 8 
> (page 201) of the ubiquitous PDF manual. :-) ]
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick Woolsey
> ==
> Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>
>
>

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