search replace wildcards

R. Harms

i have issues with a rather basic simple task
i tried to replace/alter bits of texts via search+replace w/ wildcards like in this example

(“randomtext”)

new-text(“randomtext”)

i tried using ? or .? as describled in the manual for wildcards but nothing happened (regexpressions turned on and/or off)

2nd issue :

can i replace the first 10 digits of any line in a text file w a new text ?
(^ should indicate the start of a line somehow ? )

Alan Kilborn

Hmmm…wildcards…are you sure you read the manual?