Wildcard Search for any digit followed by closing paranthesis, e.g.6)

[andreas]

Dear Experts:

I would like to do a wildcard search for any digit followed by a
bracket.

That is what I entered in the find dialog box (with wildcard option
checked):
"[0-9][\)]"

The trouble is, this search also finds expressions such as (1987) or
(2003). I would like to exclude those, that is only expressions such
as 6) or 45) are to be found (only expressions with the closing
paranthesis).

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards, Andreas

 

[Graham Mayor]

Search for <[0-9]{1,2}\)
see http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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[macropod]

Hi Andreas,

Try: "[!\(]<[0-9]{1,}\)"
This will find any string of digits followed by ')' but not preceded by '('.

 

[andreas-hermle]

Hi Andreas,

Try: "[!\(]<[0-9]{1,}\)"
This will find any string of digits followed by ')' but not preceded by '('.

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macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Dear Experts:

I would like to do a wildcard search for any digit followed by a
bracket.

That is what I entered in the find dialog box (with wildcard option
checked):
"[0-9][\)]"

The trouble is, this search also finds expressions such as (1987) or
(2003). I would like to exclude those, that is only expressions such
as 6) or 45) are to be found (only expressions with the closing
paranthesis).

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards, Andreas- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Macropod,

working as desired. Thank you very much for your professional help.

 

[andreas-hermle]

Search for <[0-9]{1,2}\)
seehttp://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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Graham Mayor -  Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org
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Dear Experts:

I would like to do a wildcard search for any digit followed by a
bracket.

That is what I entered in the find dialog box (with wildcard option
checked):
"[0-9][\)]"

The trouble is, this search also finds expressions such as (1987) or
(2003). I would like to exclude those, that is only expressions such
as 6) or 45) are to be found (only expressions with the closing
paranthesis).

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards, Andreas- Hide quoted text -

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Ok, it works. Thank you very much for your professional help.
Regards, Andreas