RE: wildcard query

[Victor Caston <vcaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:18 +0200 26.04.2002, Thomas Michanek wrote:
>  > I want to search for all typed characters, including punctuation &
>>  symbols in addition to alphanumerics, but NOT: spaces, tabs, markers,
>>  anchors and so on.
>>  If I use wildcards in Frame's Find command, and search for the text
>>  '[^\s\t]', I can avoid the spaces and tabs, but not the markers, etc.
>
>Anchors and markers are not "characters" in the usual sense, and
>therefore do not have a wildcard representation. You cannot specify
>an anchor or marker with any "\..." shortcut. So I don't think
>there's a way to accomplish the exact thing you're after.


But they do, curiously, give hits for '\<' (beginning of word).

Oh well. Back looks like I'll have to do this the hard way.

Thanks.

Best,

Victor

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