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Find and replace with parenthesis
Hello again. I'm trying to remove bibliographical references in my text, by searching and replacing it. The problem is, the references have a variable number of characters, but all of them star...
cindix If there is no other text in parentheses in your document, use the following wildcard search string
\(*\)
That's the thing. There are other texts with parentheses. Which is why I was trying to distinguish it with the "p." text parameter.
- OK. So, I added a period at the beginning of the expression to prevent it to selecting all the previous paragraphs. Apparently, it was selecting the first opening parentheses amongst all the text.
It looks like this now: (. \(* p. *\).)
So far it is working. If I see another error, I'll post it here. Thanks for your assistance!