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Thank you very much.  I'm most obliged! I've learnt a lot. Here, for completeness, are the two regexes that you've helped me develop. They're now fully functional in RegexBuddy - i.e. I'm actually using them - though I haven't got them to work in a UE script yet.  Works like a charm! Footnote identi...

Thank you for the help. I'm trying to write a regex (or a script/regex combination) that will replace the sequence: 1 2 3 4 .... 999 with <<--1-->> <<--2-->> <<--3-->> <<--4-->> <<--999-->>  (In the test text above.) In the good old emacs days, you could load the digit at the cursor position into a ...

I'm still having problems in getting a regex to work in a UE script. Take the following. A common task in DTP (Desktop Publishing) is the identification of footnote placeholders. (Think of a docx file, containing footnotes, that's just been converted to TXT.) So, the task is to identify the sequence...

@fleggy: This is working like a charm. What I've learnt from you: a) How to use the "positive lookahead" (?=) b) How to use the "dot matches line breaks" ?s: instead of  p{Any} c) That the \k really works like a variable, enabling a loop. I'm discovering also that simply running this in RegexBuddy h...

Thank you very much indeed. I'll need some time to try all this out. Much appreciated!

UltraEdit 2022.1.0.100 64-bit I'm rewriting some code that Mofi helped me with many years ago. (Really delighted that's he's still helping us novices along. Great!) !´ve got used to testing all my regex code in RegexBuddy nowadays - it's a real help, I use it regularly. I can thoroughly recommend it...