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Subject:Re: Find & Replace in DW From:David Artman <David -at- DavidArtman -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:08:48 -0400
Is it toggled to use regular expression, regex? / is the escape character in regex.
If so, untoggle, or escape the / with //.
On March 29, 2019 8:03:29 AM EDT, Paul Hanson <twer_lists_all -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>I'm using Dreamweaver CC version 18.2 and I've been experimenting with
>the Advanced tab on the Find and Replace window (Ctrl+Shift+F) and I
>cannot figure this out!
>
>It's really simple. I use a tool called Dir2HTML to generate HTML pages
>with links to PDFs, XLSs, ZIPs, and when the tool generates the HTML
>pages, it makes the titles have "/" when I want to use a "-" instead.
>
>One example is I want to replace this:
>|
><title>CTE/Voice Services/Grandstream Patient Room Phones - External
>Resources</title>
>|
>With this:
>|
><title>CTE - Voice Services - Grandstream Patient Room Phones -
>External Resources</title>
>|
>I am then going to apply that knowledge to replace
><h1>CTE/Voice Services/Grandstream Patient Room Phones - External
>Resources</h1>
>|
>With this:
>|
><h1>CTE - Voice Services - Grandstream Patient Room Phones - External
>Resources</h1>
>|
>If you are a DW F-n-R wizard or just happen to know what to set to
>what, please let me know.
>
>
>Paul Hanson
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