jamesfear Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hey I'm using AutoCAD 2008 LT, now I'm having trouble finding a string of text with square brackets "[" Anyone know of this problem or how to fix it? I've gone through the options that find and replace has, ticked and unticked all of them still nothing. P.S. 2008 LT, dosn't have the "Use wilcards" tickbox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Sometimes working with LT can be vexing. I'd suggest a custom lisp routine but LT does not support it. Perhaps the use of a macro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Erickson Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hey I'm using AutoCAD 2008 LT,now I'm having trouble finding a string of text with square brackets "[" Anyone know of this problem or how to fix it? I've gone through the options that find and replace has, ticked and unticked all of them still nothing. P.S. 2008 LT, dosn't have the "Use wilcards" tickbox... I'm using AutoCAD 2007 LT and just checked it out and the same thing happened to me. I checked out all other characters on the keyboard and they show when using the "find" command, except for the "[" square bracket. The right side of the square bracket "]" does show... so assuming you closed the bracket out with the right side, try doing a "find" with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Try `[ Reverse quote Bracket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Is the use of a reverse quote considered a wildcard of sorts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 The [ is a wildcard (or part of one). The ` will make Find read the next character literally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 You are a fountain of information my friend. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryder76 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 This old dog just learned a new trick - Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesfear Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Try `[Reverse quote Bracket Thank you for your help, that works! haha and thank you ReMark for your sugguestion =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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