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• • February 21, 2013 at 9:54 am #64234
    Nownow57

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    Hi everyone,

    I am sorry to bother you but I need your help concerning a grep request which don't really work.

    I am trying to find all the terms containing the term “eg”, “e.g”, “eg.”, “e.g.” and “e.g.,” and replace them by “e.g.,”

    Here is the Grep request : (e)(.)?(g)(.)?(,)*s*?

    which is replaced by : e.g.,~s

    But my problem is that the request also finds terms containing in words like “regex” and I don't understand why … where is my mistake ? I tried to use the terms < and > to delimitate he beginning and the end of the word but if I do this, the coma and dots aren't selected …

    Thank you in advance for your help.

  • February 21, 2013 at 10:33 am #64236
    David Blatner

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    Does this work?

    <e.?g.?>

    (My guess is that you had backslashes in your post, but our forum eats them. You need to type backslash twice in a row or else they disappear here.)

  • February 22, 2013 at 1:30 am #64252
    Nownow57

    Member

    Indeed, here is the correct GREP request I have :

    (e)(.)?(g)(.)?(,)*s*

    Thanks for your help … Unfortunately, the GREP you gave me works but doesn't find any dot, comma or space(s) after the “g”

  • February 22, 2013 at 6:39 am #64259
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    To add the comma, just add a ,? at the end. The question mark means “zero or one” instances of the previous character.

  • February 22, 2013 at 7:09 am #64260
    Nownow57

    Member

    I already tried but the problem isn't solved : indeed, a word like “regex” is always recognized in the request whereas it shoudln't be ;___; I really don't know where the problem is … I tried a lot of combinaisons but none of them worked …

  • February 22, 2013 at 7:19 am #64261
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Huh? Did you use the backslash-angle-brackets at the beginning and end? Those are word boundaries. Or you could put a backslash-b at both sides, which should also work.

  • February 22, 2013 at 8:06 am #64262
    Nownow57

    Member

    I finally find the solution :)

    <e.*g.*,*

    Thanks for your help

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