Wild card set – Nisus Writer Express User Manual
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Special Positions set of Find/Replace expressions illustrated
Wild Card Set
Include a wild card in your expression when you want to find one or more characters. For example,
use the wild card
To look for any number between 0 and 9. If you know you want to find 93, type 9 and 3 in the Find
box. If you just know that your document has a two digit number, but you don’t know what it is,
enter
.
AnyCharacter
Any character except the Return character that defines the end of a paragraph
AnyWord
Any word
AnySentence
Any group of characters that ends in an “end of sentence” marker followed by a
space (tab, Return or the end of the file). If a space follows an abbreviation with a
period, Nisus Writer Express selects up to that period.
AnyParagraph
Any character that occurs one or more times (from the insertion point forward)
except the Return character that defines the end of a paragraph