OpenOffice Writer (or a similar program) may be useful for this. It would allow you to search by format while using a more controlled regular expression than MS Word's wildcards.
-----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question Thanks everyone, this really helps. I'll have to work out the italicized stuff, but this gets me much closer. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Kyle Banerjee <kyle.baner...@gmail.com> wrote: > Y'all are doing this the hard way. Word allows regex replacements as > well as format based criteria. > > For this particular use case: > > 1. Open the find/replace dialog (CTL+H) > 2. In the "Find what" box, put (<*>) -- make sure the option for "Use > Wildcards" is selected, and for the format, specify italic > 3. For the"Replace box," just put \1 and specify All caps > > And you're done > > kyle > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> > wrote: > > > Eric Phetteplace writes > > > > > You can match a string of all caps letters like "[A-Z]" > > > > This works if you are limited to English. But in a multilingual > > setting, you need to watch out for other uppercases, such as > > крихель vs КРИХЕЛЬ. It then depends in the unicode implementation > > of your regex application. In Perl, for example, you would use > > [[:upper:]]. > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers, > > > > Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel > > skype:thomaskrichel > > >
