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Re: wildcard query



Victor Caston 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.
> 
> Is there a symbol way to capture this (short of explicitly listing 
> nearly all 256)?

Would the expression  [!-~]  work for you? I've tried it, and
it works for US-ASCII printable characters. If you need to look
for accented characters as well, check the Character_Sets.pdf
file (Frame "Online Manual") for the last character in the list
for your OS. (On MacOS, it's the caron & you can insert it into
the search string with Option-Shift-t.)

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