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George -- Not to re-open an old string, but two spaces following the period will permit the any-letter search. Fred Gross George Scithers wrote: I have been scanning old pulp magazines for a publisher. One repeating problem is to search for each example of a period followed by a space and then a lower case letter. This is to find and then delete spurious periods that are flecks of dirt that have been interpreted as periods by the character recognition program. |