For clarity, Word does regex, not just wildcards. It's not quite as complete as what you'd get with some other environments such as OpenOffice Writer since matching is lazy rather than greedy which can be a big deal depending on what you're doing and there are a couple other catches -- notably no support for "|" -- but it's reasonably powerful. There is no regexp capability in Excel unless you're willing to use VBA.
kyle On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Gordon, Bonnie <bgor...@rockarch.org> wrote: > OpenOffice Writer (or a similar program) may be useful for this. It would > allow you to search by format while using a more controlled regular > expression than MS Word's wildcards. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Matt Sherman > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:45 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question > > Thanks everyone, this really helps. I'll have to work out the italicized > stuff, but this gets me much closer. > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Kyle Banerjee <kyle.baner...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Y'all are doing this the hard way. Word allows regex replacements as > > well as format based criteria. > > > > For this particular use case: > > > > 1. Open the find/replace dialog (CTL+H) > > 2. In the "Find what" box, put (<*>) -- make sure the option for "Use > > Wildcards" is selected, and for the format, specify italic > > 3. For the"Replace box," just put \1 and specify All caps > > > > And you're done > > > > kyle > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Eric Phetteplace writes > > > > > > > You can match a string of all caps letters like "[A-Z]" > > > > > > This works if you are limited to English. But in a multilingual > > > setting, you need to watch out for other uppercases, such as > > > крихель vs КРИХЕЛЬ. It then depends in the unicode implementation > > > of your regex application. In Perl, for example, you would use > > > [[:upper:]]. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel > > > skype:thomaskrichel > > > > > >
