Re: [Bibdesk-users] regular expressions in find & replace

Yes, but it uses the PCRE syntax . You should use $1, $2 etc instead of \1, \2, etc. (has bitten me too in the past). Christiaan On 28 Jul 2007, at 1:33 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: > I just tried to do a find&replace operation with regular expressions > > find: ([^\,]+), (^\/)

[Bibdesk-users] regular expressions in find & replace

I just tried to do a find&replace operation with regular expressions find: ([^\,]+), (^\/) replace with: \2 \1 which should basically look for certain entries in the shortauthor field and change the order of their first and second names. However, while the "find" part works fine BibDesk will