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Searching with regular expressions
You can use regular expressions (or RegExp) to match patterns in character strings
during Extended Find and Extended Replace operations.
To search with regular expressions:
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The double-spaced lines are collapsed to be single-spaced lines.
Select Search > Extended Search or Search > Extended Replace as necessary.
In the Extended Find or Extended Replace dialog box, select Regular expressions.
Enabling Regular expressions disables the Skip tags while searching option.
If replacing text in a project or folder, select Make Backups and specify a backup
location. If replacing in the current document or in all open documents, consider
making backup copies before proceeding.
In the Find what box, enter the regular expression for the pattern you want to
find.
For more information, see
Complete the rest of the search dialog box as you would in any extended search
or replace.
For details, see
"Using extended search commands" on page
Click Find or Replace, as applicable.
Chapter 12 Testing and Maintaining Web Pages
"Using regular expressions" on page
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