Wildcard search not working?

[davidgolden99]

I have a Flare 10 project that was imported from Word, and has a lot of unwanted ordered lists. I need to remove all the lists and fix the formatting. Rather than unbind each list individually, I was hoping to just remove them all with a few find & replace actions. A typical tag is

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<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;" start="2">

I'm trying to search on

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<ol*>

in each topic, but I'm not getting any results. I also searched

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<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;" start="?">

and didn't get results. Is there a trick to getting Find in Files with Wildcards to work?

[davidgolden99]

I was able to delete the list tags using a regular expression.

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<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;" start="\d">

I still don't understand why the wildcards don't work.

[NorthEast]

The wildcard search doesn't include spaces, i.e. it'll stop matching at a space.

AFAIK, it's not documented what characters aren't matched in the wildcard search.

[davidgolden99]

Thanks. That makes sense in an undocumented and inconvenient way.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Alternatively, use a tool outside of Flare. My particular favourite is FAR HTML.