Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:41 PM
To: Joseph; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Wild Card Searches
The Frame search (wild card) feature is based upon grep. It's not a
real implementation, or a full implementation in any stretch of the
imagination. It's not fully document
You could also search for a alphabetic string with a specific pattern and
> replace it by pasting in a variable.
>
> Scott>>
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> David Spreadbury
> Sr. Technical Writer
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:05 PM
To: David Spreadbury
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Joseph
Subject: Re: Wild Card Searches
Hi, David:
YEAH! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
I'm sure this is docume
David Spreadbury wrote:
> First I tried to search the framers archives because there was a
discussion
> on this topic a while back, but couldn't find the search function on
> framers.
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Subject: RE: Wild Card Searches
David Spreadbury wrote:
> First I tried to search the framers archives because there was a
discussion
> on this topic a while back, but couldn't find the search function on
> framers.
For future reference: In a Google search box, enter:
" site:l
following questions.
1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card
searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different
characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing
useful searches.
2. In addition, what wild card searches does
, I discovered that I could strip out
>empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to
>find much documentation about this feature.
>
>This leads me to the following questions.
>
>1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card
Klaus,
You are correct. I ascribed the full features of
grep to the FrameMaker wildcard search. There is
no way to make a full pattern search with
wildcards, though you can approximate it, and you
will get some false positives. And you cannot
replace the pattern with another pattern, you
mus
following questions.
1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card
searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different
characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing
useful searches.
2. In addition, what wild card searches does
, I discovered that I could strip out
>empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to
>find much documentation about this feature.
>
>This leads me to the following questions.
>
>1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card
Klaus,
You are correct. I ascribed the full features of
grep to the FrameMaker wildcard search. There is
no way to make a full pattern search with
wildcards, though you can approximate it, and you
will get some false positives. And you cannot
replace the pattern with another pattern, you
mus
ay, November 11, 2008 1:41 PM
To: Joseph; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Wild Card Searches
The Frame search (wild card) feature is based upon grep. It's not a
real implementation, or a full implementation in any stretch of the
imagination. It's not fully documented as a search
for a alphabetic string with a specific pattern and
> replace it by pasting in a variable.
>
> Scott>>
>
> David Spreadbury
> Sr. Technical Writer
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frame
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:05 PM
To: David Spreadbury
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Joseph
Subject: Re: Wild Card Searches
Hi, David:
YEAH! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
I'm sure this is documented
David Spreadbury wrote:
> First I tried to search the framers archives because there was a
discussion
> on this topic a while back, but couldn't find the search function on
> framers.
For future reference: In a Google search box, enter:
" site:lists.frameusers.com" (sans quotes)
Omit "lists."
: RE: Wild Card Searches
David Spreadbury wrote:
> First I tried to search the framers archives because there was a
discussion
> on this topic a while back, but couldn't find the search function on
> framers.
For future reference: In a Google search box, enter:
" site:lists.fr
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