Group: microsoft.public.word.vba.general
From: "Tony Jollans"
Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: WildCard

As far as I can tell you want to find matching outer brackets with zero or
more inner nested sets of bracketed text.

You can't do that with a single pattern in F&R - you'll need to code it up
in VBA and apply some logic.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Lachezar Parvov" wrote in
message news:0131F882-834C-4CA5-914D-E94806665E2B@microsoft.com...
> Yes but If I have this
>
> [[alabaa]]
>
> [[text]]
>
> Will find:
>
> "[[alabaa]]
>
> [[text]]"
>
> not
>
> "[[alabaa]]"
>
> "[[text]]"
>
> "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>
>> "Lachezar Parvov" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi. I have a problem with wildcard. I use Ms Word 2003 and use to Find
>> > and
>> > replace dialog.
>> >
>> > I have current text:
>> >
>> > text
>> > [[ text [[ name [ text ]] text ]]
>> > text
>> >
>> > I want to find this [[ text [[ name [ text ]] text ]]
>> > I use wildcard and this \[\[*\]\] but Word find this [[ name [ text ]]
>> >
>> > Plecae help me how I can find [[ text [[ name [ text ]] text ]]
>>
>> Have you tried
>> \[\[*\]\]*\]\]
>> ???