[There is no Help topic for RegEx Pal, so I’ll start this thread for myself or anyone else to add helpful comments about RegEx Pal.]
To open RegEx Pal, choose Tools menu ➢ Advanced ➢ RegEx Pal…
In the regular PT Find/Replace, regexes can be used only in the Find field. The RegEx Pal tool gives full regex find/replace functionality, plus the ability to count the number of matches a find string generates, or list each possible match along with the count for each unique matching string.
There are also menu items that will insert certain regex strings to save you having to remember them (such as preceded by, not followed by); and there is a menu where you can save your best-constructed regexes for later use.
Tech note: RegEx Pal is a stand-alone executable file, separate from the Paratext executable. However, it is best to run it from the Paratext menus.
See also:
- Can regular expressions be used in Paratext?
- Useful Regular Expressions
- Expressions for RegEx Pal
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Project History panic (post #3)
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