On 5 Oct 2008, at 12:23 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using today's nightly:
>
>
> make a new bibliography
> add these two items:
>
> @article{Featherstone:1987zr,
> Author = {Featherstone, Kevin},
> Date-Added = {2008-10-05 12:16:31 +0200},
> Date-Modified = {2008-10-05 12:17:32 +0200},
> Pages = {6-7},
> Title = {PASOK and the Left}}
>
> @article{Morlino:1995ys,
> Author = {Morlino, Leonardo},
> Date-Added = {2008-10-05 12:16:27 +0200},
> Date-Modified = {2008-10-05 12:17:26 +0200},
> Pages = {1-2},
> Title = {Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern
> Europe}}
>
> open the find & replace window
> do a find & replace operation in the field PAGES with a REG EXP
> replacing (\d)\-(\d) with \1\--\2 (goal is to change the single
> minus in the page range by a double one)
> execute (either by "replace all" of by "find & replace")
> the result will be to have the exactly identical page range with a
> double minus in both entries, thus killing the correct information in
> the respectively second entry
>
> Bug or me not using reg exps properly?
>
> Alex
The second option. We're using Perl regexp, which uses $0, $1, $2, ...
for placeholders rather than \0, \1, \2,... That has bit me several
times as well ;-) Also, you may want to use (\d*) instead of (\d).
Christiaan
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