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Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
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Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"


  • Subject: Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:49:12 +0100

At 22:00 +0100 26/01/01, Bill Planey wrote:
>I need to automate a search and replace function in MS Word with pattern
>matching turned on. Braces ( "{" and "}" ) already have special meaning
>in AppleScript (as well as the pattern matching feature of search and
>replace in Word). How can I get my find string to contain braces?

I must be missing something, but there are other patterns which have
special meaning in AppleScript. Such as, "to", "on", "of" (and, actually,
tons of terms). Do you have also problems to get your find string to
contain those ?

Emmanuel


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