[quote="TLM"]Looks like the `Any single character` or ? token is being repeated in this case ( not sure why )..
[/quote]Yes... :?
[quote="TLM"]try: [c]hig[a-z]{1,6} tem[/c][/quote]That worked well in this situation. Thank you! :)

While [url=https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Use-wildcard-characters-to-find-or-replace-text-610e37dc-bb2f-4a8b-8fa5-aa991160eafb#tblID0EACAAA]wild card search[/url] is similar to RegEx, its definitely not the same.
Looks like the `Any single character` or ? token is being repeated in this case ( not sure why )..
Also wildcards deal with spaces much differently than RegEx.

After some messing around I've come to realize you can't use space as a `special character`..
try: [c]hig[a-z]{1,6} tem[/c]

htms

This is Haystack:
[quote][font=courier new]higher temperature
random text
higher random text random text temperature[/font][/quote]This is NeedleRegEx: [c]hig.{1,6}tem[/c], which finds the following (red) pattern:
[quote][font=courier new][color=#FF0000][b]higher tem[/b][/color]perature
random text
higher random text random text temperature[/font][/quote]However, when I go to MS Word's Advanced Find, check "use wildcards" checkbox and type [c]hig?{1,6}tem[/c] , which is compatible with [c]hig.{1,6}tem[/c] NeedleRegEx, it finds the following (red) patterns:
[quote][font=courier new][color=#FF0000][b]higher tem[/b][/color]perature
random text
[b][color=#FF0000]higher random text random text tem[/color][/b]perature[/font][/quote]Why does it find [c]higher random text random text tem[/c] pattern? If I understand this correctly, it shouldn't find it because there are much more than 6 characters between [c]hig[/c] and [c]tem[/c]. But it finds it… Why? I don't understand am I doing something wrong or is it a bug in MS Word?
Thanks.


[size=75][color=#BFBFFF][b]Moderator:[/b] moved from Ask for Help since this is not an AHK question.[/color][/size]