Delete Special Characters (*) if the sequential count is >1

[lenchemegr]

Has anyone needed to delete consecutive instances (varying throughout the file) of a special character (*) via a macro. Help.

[Mofi]

If I have understood your question correct use following regular expression in UltraEdit style to replace for example **** by a single *.

Find What: ^*^*+
Replace With: ^*

The ^ is described in the help about regular expressions in UltraEdit style with: Overrides the following regular expression character

See also Configuration - Searching - Special character used in Find/Replace strings (normally ^).

In Unix style the \ has the same special meaning as the ^ for UltraEdit style. So in Unix style the appropriate replace is:

Find What: \*\*+
Replace With: \*

[TomTinsley]

In normal RegEx you would use

\*{1,}

to specify more than 1 instance of the * character.

[TomTinsley]

In normal RegEx you would use

\*{1,6}

to specify more than 1 and less than 6 instance of the * character.