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Find with Regular Expressions: Find a cross-reference text range

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 15, 2020
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Hello fellows,

When using the FM "Find" menu, is there a way to find an xref text range and select it?

Thanks!

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi,

You can just select one of these Find items: Cross-Reference Any/Of Format/Unresolved

Then it will select the cross-reference.

Is this what you are looking for?

Best regards

Winfried

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Rom_BaAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Winfried,

Thank you for your response!

The xrefs are just part of the string I'd like to select and delete. The string looks like as follows:

(xref_string [digit:digit]), where the [digit:digit] part is just plain text.

The problem is that there are other xrefs of the same format which are not enclosed in parantheses that I need to keep intact.

Best Regards,

Roman

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi Roman,

I do not think that you can automate this, at least not without a script.

Best regards

Winfried

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

According to the Help, at least some of the fields accept Regular Expressions, including ranges.

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Rom_BaAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your response. This statement is not clear. There are just a limited number of REGEX arguments that the Find function understands. A period (.) can select an xref in certain cases but it's not consistent.

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