Find and Replace Wildcard character?

Find and Replace Wildcard character?

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    Nov 18, 2005#1

    I have large databases and want to find and replace all 6 digit numbers that begin with "2" or "3", etc..

    Is this done with 2 followed by 5 wildcard characters?

    What is the wildcard character?

    Thanks for any assistance.

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    MasterMaster
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      Nov 18, 2005#2

      Do a regular expression search, using UltraEdit style regular expressions (read about them in the Help)

      search string would be [^0-9] [2-3][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][^0-9]


      this translates to "find a non-digit character followed by a 2 or a 3, followed by five digit characters, followed by a non-digit character"
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      NewbieNewbie
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        Nov 18, 2005#3

        Thanks for the help. It is appreciated. RT