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From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
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Subject: Re: Confused first time Kate user
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 06:17:56 -0500
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On 07/02/2024 10:11 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 02.07.2024 17:00, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote at 14:40 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>> I have a Debian machine with Kate Version 16.08.3 .
>>>
>>> I wish to do a search & replace using regular expressions.
>>> The "Help" menu has led to
>>> https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regular-expressions.html
>>> and
>>> https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regex-patterns.html
>>>
>>> I have strings of the form "XYZn" where n is one to three digits
>>> representing values of from 1 to 299. I wish to replace all occurrences
>>> with "abc".
>>>
>>> The documents give essentially no examples.
>>>
>>> Help please.
>>> TIA
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend using an online regex generator like
>> https://regex101.com/.
>>
>> This regex expression should do what you want:
>> [[:digit:]]{3}
> 
> Doesn't that mean _exactly_ 3 digits? (The OP wanted 1-299, which
> may be one up to three digits.) Some regexp parsers allow {,3} for
> an up-to range (but that might mean 0-3, thus also not the desired
> expression). Or you can explicitly specify the digits range {1,3}.
> 
> Janis
> 

You correctly interpreted the restrictions I have.