Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
- Subject: Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:17:57 -0500
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:48:26 -0800
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Subject: Re: Replacing braces in search and replace strings "{" and "}"
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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On 1/27/01 10:20 AM, "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> If word is using some sort of wild-card or regular expression
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> scheme, then it probably has it's own means of "escaping" literal
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> characters.
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> Try using: "\\{" and "\\}" to represent "{" and "}".
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It's not like that, Arthur. { and } in bold format have special meaning as
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Field Code delimiters displayed in Word itself, with that "show field codes"
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option on.
Ah, understood. I just didn't know what the original poster meant
when he said that:
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> ... Braces ( "{" and "}" ) already have special meaning
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>in AppleScript
these things wouldn't happen if everyone just stopped using
microsoft products...
Hey, who said that ??? ;-)
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