[softwarelist] Re: OPro: searching for a style
- From: Anthony Hilton <ajh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:02:30 GMT
In message <fa36aefc50.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dated 23 Mar 2010
Jim Nagel <opro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> in the Find field i type the wildcard \* meaning "any string" and
> leave the Replace field blank. i expect it to find the next whole
> block that is marked with this style. but it results in an error:
> "Wild card search text matches the null string." that's not much
> help.
> what am i misunderstanding?
The error message indicates that \* matches any string including empty
strings - no characters at all - so on its own it is useless.
Try \. - any single character to find the first character marked with
your style. I have played with SRWE and cannot find a way to find the
whole of block with a particular style applied (tested with a style
which has the scope of Selection). I think this is the best option for
Jim.
It seems the wildcard \* is generally 'lazy' - that is it matches the
shortest possible ammount. For example \.\*\. 'any character, any
string, any character' matches 2 characters. If it was 'greedy' it
would match as long a string as possible within the constraints, in
this case would find the whole block in the requested Style.
Anthony
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