Hi Judy,
I, too, remember what Evan is talking about. it does seem that K1000 uses
regular expressions different than does MS Word.
I tried both the searches you gave me in K1000 and they find something
altogether different, or nothing at all.
I've never been able to find much in the manual—it seems that you need to learn
about regular expressions from another source and figure out on your own how to
use them in K1000.
Deborah
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Hi Evan,
Great find! Regular expressions are what Word uses in the wildcard search. A
caution, however: Word uses it's own "version" of regular expressions and
visual basic. There may not be a one-to-one identical search term because of
that, but since Kurzweil can do regular expressions, it can do these kinds of
searches. Yay!
Judy s.
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On 10/7/2017 2:53 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
Hey Guys,
At first, I thought what Judy said was correct, but later on I recalled that
you can use something called “regular expressions” in K1000. Unfortunately,
although I have a message from Stephen Baum answering a question I had about
how to use them, and I have a message here from me thanking him for an
interesting message about them to the (now defunct) K1000 support mailing list,
I cannot find the original message he sent describing how to use them. Also, I
cannot find any references to “regular expressions” in my version 11.03 user
manual or reference guide, although the correspondence I had with him about
them was from 2010, well before this version came out.
After a bit of Googling however, I have found references to regular expressions
in pdf manuals from versions 12 and 13 of K1000, so it seems likely that those
who have those or later versions should have access to the info as to how to
use them. Since I’m not sure I really understand them, I am not sure whether
they are equivalent to, or even similar to, what Judy is doing with MS Word,
but it seems that they might be. Perhaps someone here has that old email
message, or can quote from the manual for the later versions that describe how
to use them.
I will copy what Stephen Baum posted back to me so that people can at least get
an idea as to how they work. His response was an answer to a question I had as
to how to search for something that was not there. My original message is below
Stephen’s, so you can see what he was answering.
