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Need help with GREP expression

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    • July 16, 2014 at 12:29 pm #69538
      Jerry Ross
      Member

      Hi all,

      I’m working on an extensive book of references that I’m having trouble styling with GREP.

      Each reference begins with the source of the reference and looks like this example: “*** it-2 págs. 353-354 Meditación ***”.

      I would seem simple enough to write an expression to find any string that begins with 3 asterisks and ends with 3 asterisks, but I can’t figure out how to do it.

      Any suggestions?

    • July 16, 2014 at 4:55 pm #69543
      David Blatner
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      This is because the asterisk is a “reserved” character in grep, so you have to “escape” it with a backslash. Not sure if this will come across properly, but you would search for \*\*\*.+\*\*\*

    • July 16, 2014 at 5:11 pm #69544
      Jerry Ross
      Member

      David,

      That worked perfectly! Thank you.

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