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by pfistyle
Fri May 27, 2011 7:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: find words with the same beginning
Replies: 13
Views: 1315

hi ben_josephs,

i tried both replace - strings, they didn't work (expression not found)
by pfistyle
Fri May 27, 2011 6:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: find words with the same beginning
Replies: 13
Views: 1315

hi there, sorry for being absent for a while. the text looks f. ex. like this: bla bla bla ab-cdef-gh-01 bla bla bla bla bla ab-ijkl-gh-07 bla bla bla ab-ijkl-gh-08 bla bla bla bla bla ab-mnop-gh-003 bla bla bla bla bla ab-qrst-gh-05 bla bla: ab-uvw-gh-01 bla bla bla... hope this helped to make clea...
by pfistyle
Tue May 17, 2011 1:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: find words with the same beginning
Replies: 13
Views: 1315

hi there, thx for your answers... indeed i wanted to be able to copy these words... with ^.*ab-.* i can find the lines that have these expressions, but is there a way to just mark these words, and not the whole line? what i am trying to do is to copy a whole text and just search for the names and co...
by pfistyle
Tue May 17, 2011 9:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: find words with the same beginning
Replies: 13
Views: 1315

find words with the same beginning

hi there, i don't know if i'm just too stupid or if i just didn't search as i should, but i didn't find any answer to my problem. i have a text. in this text, there are normally a lot of names, beginning always with the same 3 letters, f. ex ab- (then, there are some more letters, f.ex the whole nam...