Great thanks to all those who answered.
This is a great forum.

- avi


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, David A Starr <dastarr at ra.rockwell.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure this is helpful at this time, but Using FrameMaker 5 has a
> Chapter 8 titled Searching. The Index for this manual has a  reference
> from searching to See 'finding'. Finding has a long list of search tools
> and methods, and also cross references 'changing' and 'navigating'.
>
> I'm wondering if some of these old terms may hide in the current help
> files?
>
> Dave Starr
>
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> "David Spreadbury" <dspreadb at yahoo.com>
> Sent by: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> 10/05/2009 04:02 PM
>
> To
> "'Matt Sullivan'" <matt at grafixtraining.com>, <peter at knowhowpro.com>, 
> "'Les
> Smalley'" <l_c_smalley at yahoo.com>
> cc
> framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject
> RE: Replace on part of a wildcards search
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You are quite right.
>
> The Frame 5.5 User Guide has about eight pages, starting on page 55, on
> performing searches.
>
> There is a half-page table on page 57, the same one that is in the
> referenced handout, on Using Wildcards in a Search.
>
> Somewhere I should have a copy of the Frame 4 User Guide, which probably
> goes into even more depth. Need to do some more digging.
>
> David Spreadbury
> Sr. Technical Writer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:matt at grafixtraining.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:53 PM
> To: 'David Spreadbury'; peter at knowhowpro.com; 'Les Smalley'
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Replace on part of a wildcards search
>
> Part of what you may be looking for was in an FM 5.5 handout I got as part
> of the FrameMaker Classroom in a Box product.
>
> I've posted the PDF here
> http://www.grafixtraining.com/reference/
> And the information on wildcard searches is in Handout 6-3 on page 12
>
> The info is (obviously) from FM 5.5, but still quite current.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David
> Spreadbury
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:54 AM
> To: peter at knowhowpro.com; 'Les Smalley'
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Replace on part of a wildcards search
>
> Searching for "framemaker grep" brought what might be a source for using
> GREP with Adobe products. Apparently it is not limited to FrameMaker. Try
> reading what is available at http://carijansen.com/. If this doesn't help,
> maybe contacting the author, Cari Jansen, in Perth, Australia, would
> provide
> the answers.
>
> HTH
>
> David Spreadbury
> Sr. Technical Writer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 1:32 PM
> To: Les Smalley
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Replace on part of a wildcards search
>
> FrameMaker has long a GREP-like search feature, in FM, and some
> documentation for it. However, the replace wasn't GREP-like. But worse
> yet,
> there doesn't seem to be a trace of the documentation for it in FM9. I've
> forgotten how to use it, and without the doc, I'm not sure that my couple
> of
> quick tests were failing because the feature's gone from the product as
> well
> as the doc, or if I just didn't enter the search string correctly.
>
> I don't have an earlier FrameMaker installed, and don't have the earlier
> docs handy. Perhaps someone on the list can respond.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> _______________________
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Les Smalley <l_c_smalley at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Avi,
> >
> > The asterisk ( * ) wildcard matches any character EXCEPT spaces or
> > punctuation; the wildcard character to use for those is the verticle
> > bar ( | ) but also remember that the tab character is "\t" (no
> > quotes) ...
> >
> > Regardless, unfortunately you can't do it with FrameMaker as you
> > describe attempting.  The search tool removes everything matched by
> > the search string and inserts the replace string in its place, so you
> > will also lose the "Command" string.  It is a great disappointment
> > that a real GREP search capability (or even more general awk text
> > processing features) has never been implemented in FM.
> >
> > If
> > you search for just "Unit32" and replace that with "SHORT_ID" you can
> > do what you want by careful use of the 'Change & Find' or just 'Find'
> > buttons (and I understand how tedious and error-prone this can
> > be.)
> >
> > It may be posible to do this via scripting (e.g.
> > FrameScript, etc.; I'm sure others more knowledgeable will chime in)
> > or possibly by saving to MIF and using a text based editor on that,
> > then reopening it in FM to verify the results.
> >
> > FWIW, grep and awk
> > (and a number of other unix tools) are available as utilities for
> > Windows and any search engine can point you to places to get them.
> >
> > - Les
> >
> > --- On Mon, 10/5/09, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > How do you do a Replace on part of a wildcards search?
> >
> > E.,g., I am looking for a line with:
> >
> > Uint32 Command
> >
> > where there can be any type and amount of white space between "Uint32"
> > and "Command".
> >
> > So I guess the wild card search format will be
> >
> > Uint32*Command
> >
> > No?
> >
> > But then if I want to replace just the "Uint32" part with "SHORT_ID".
> > How would i do that?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > - avi
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