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Bud Tripp's avatar
Bud Tripp
Copper Contributor
Nov 06, 2018

Replace when wild cards used

In excel, ? matches any single character, thus s?b could be used to find s1b, s2b, and so forth. Once the matching items are found, I would like to leave the value matched by the ? wild card unchanged, let's say, for example, I want s1b to be replaced by s1foo, s2b by s2foo, and so forth. I tried using s?foo as the replacement string, but that literally replaced the digit with the ? character rather than leaving it alone. Is there a character that indicates "no change" to what matched the wildcard?

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  • Eva Vogel's avatar
    Eva Vogel
    Iron Contributor
    Hi! Can you post a screenshot of what you mean with that issue „?“, ?
    it’s an unknown character while importing content from other file types, such as cab or txt... or is it cleared yet? Greets, Eva

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