<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Basic question: What wildcard characters can be used in find &amp; replace, and what do the characters represent?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Apologies for the newbie question: What are the various wildcard characters that can be used in find &amp; replace, and what do they represent?</p>
<p dir="auto">For example, if I want to replace a comma with a space in all instances where the comma is in between 2 numbers, how do I do that?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you for your time and guidance!</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12154/basic-question-what-wildcard-characters-can-be-used-in-find-replace-and-what-do-the-characters-represent</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:13:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12154.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:04:06 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Basic question: What wildcard characters can be used in find &amp; replace, and what do the characters represent? on Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:44:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi,<br />
there are none :)</p>
<p dir="auto">If you want to perform this kind of replacement, you will need to learn regular expressions (a.k.a. regexp).</p>
<p dir="auto">There are dozens of tutorial on the net, e.g. here:<br />
<a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.regular-expressions.info/</a></p>
<p dir="auto">I should warn you though, that regexp are like women: powerful, mysterious and unforgiving :)<br />
And they usually don’t behave the way you expect.<br />
But don’t be discouraged. It is a great tool, if used properly. In my work, where I deal a lot with a plaintext processing, I would be lost without them</p>
<p dir="auto">Anyway, answer to your particular question about space between two numbers is<br />
with regexp search mode:<br />
Replace<br />
(\d),(\d)<br />
with<br />
\1 \2</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/17039</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/17039</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matyáš Krupička]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:44:33 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>