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bit:
WildGem

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Or if you want to do a global search and replace over multiple files there's Find & Replace or PSPad, both free.
-4wd (September 30, 2015, 08:47 PM)
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Way cool.
How would I tell WG to find numbers 0 thru 9 and colon [:] all in one shot and make them disappear?
I can get it to do one number at a time so far, and it seems to have no file size or page limits.

Target:
see 4WD's screeny, otherwise you can select all numbers (digits) using the multiple digit button (look across the top).  I was able to fumble the " in by appending with a pipe in the regex field (eg append |" to the multi digit regex)

4wd:
How would I tell WG to find numbers 0 thru 9 and colon [:] all in one shot and make them disappear?-bit (September 30, 2015, 11:49 PM)
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([\[\]\d":]) - match [, ], digits, ", or :

bit:
How would I tell WG to find numbers 0 thru 9 and colon [:] all in one shot and make them disappear?-bit (September 30, 2015, 11:49 PM)
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([\[\]\d":]) - match [, ], digits, ", or :
-4wd (October 01, 2015, 01:45 AM)
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Good gosh, that's exactly the string you had already put in your screen shot, right in front of me.
Amazing; nothing happens as I type in the string character by character until the last entry, then shoom!, it gives you exactly what you want in one big transformation.  :Thmbsup:

4wd:
That's because until you enter the ) the capture group hasn't been completed.

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