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Thanks, I'll try that. I have acces to other regex products. Is this something I could do with regex in general? If so, do you know what the expression might be.

Thanks
-Joe

I have been using this, but I am stumped on how to get it NOT to pick up words like

McArthur
MacDaddy

Basically not process anything that starts with Mc or Mac

I tried
[^Mc]([[:lower:]])([[:upper:]])

But that seems to not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks
-Joe

Hello,

I am trying to find a regex to fix quotes in a document for example:

change

'Good. Then let's do it.'

to

"Good. Then let's do it."

I've tried the find expression
'((\\')|[^'(\\')])+'

and

'[^'\r\n]*'

but both catch the ' in let's as a quote as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
-Joe

Thank you, that worked perfect!

Trying to figure this one out, I'm cleaning up html docs and I am trying to get some formatting done. I need to do the following replacement on about 80-90 sections. Find <DIV align=right><B>a bunch of text here</B></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;More text here as well</DIV> replace <DIV align ...

That worked perfect. Thank You!

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