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nelsonbyrne
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Post by nelsonbyrne »

How do I use OR in PF?

I want to find uses of
o OR a followed by r
That is, I want to find all
…or…
and also all
…ar…


Using OR in PF I find all
o
and also all
ar


Regards,

Nelson Byrne
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Post by ssampler »

Not sure about powerfind, but in powerfind pro it is simple:

(o|a)r


the "|" is the "or" and the () group, so that the translation is "o" or "a" followed by "r"

-Steve
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Post by martin »

You could use a PowerFind capture to do the grouping Steve suggested, but really nothing so fancy is required here. Why not just use:

or(OR)ar

Where "(OR)" represents the PowerFind bubble for OR. Does that make sense?
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Post by ssampler »

Much simpler, Martin! I've forgotten how powerful powerfind is.

Steve
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Post by nelsonbyrne »

Thanks for the help, especially the capture.

Here's what I'd like to find:

(Line Separator U+2028
OR
Line feed U+000A)
followed by any characters in italics up to a Line feed


And on finding them I'd like to replace the initial character by a line feed and then assign a style to the italic characters and to their terminating line feed.

I'm working with a source that flags certain paragraphs in italic, but sometimes uses line separators and sometimes uses line feed.

Thanks in advance,

Nelson
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