How to search for "And" at the beginning of a sentence

Question

I want to search how many times KJV used the word "and" at the beginning of a sentence. Is there any filter to do that?

Answer 1

I think this Regular Expression will find every And at the beginning of a sentence. The characters inside the square brackets  are all the sentence ending punctuation plus the digits 0-9, because the first sentence in a verse is preceded by the verse number.

[.:?!1234567890]\sAnd\s

You can open the RegExPal  tool from "Advanced" in the project menu. In RegExPal, choose the tool "count/extract" then enter this expression and ask for a count.

Comments

Could you not just do a regular search for all the "And" words matching case? I wouldn't expect "and" to be capitalized anywhere but at the start of a sentence.

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@sewhite I don't think you included quotations, or a * (i.e., if it's after a closing footnote or cross-reference). There could be other "odd" characters too...

If somebody is non-technical, I would suggest @Fool Running's response, as it's easier to implement for a non-techie.

Answer 2

I would suggest using the standard Find (thank you @Fool Running for the tip):

1. Go to the Find window for your project/resource
2. Type And in the find box (#1 below):
   
3. Choose "All Books" (#2 above)
4. Click the More button (#3 above)
5. In the More section:
   1. For Restrictions: Choose "Whole Word Only"
      
   2. Select "Match case"
   3. Select "Show Verse Context" if you want