Difficult Problem involving Wildcard Searches

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MicahO

Anybody in here a search guru?

The problem is difficult to explain, but I'll try.

I'm trying to search for word/capitalization combinations where I onl
know one word. For example, I want one search that will find:
- Sundance fault
- Ghost fault
but not
- your fault
- my fault.

So I've figured out part of it. By using the term "<([A-Z]*)> fault"
I can find "*S*undance fault" and "*G*host fault", but I also ge
"*I*t's not my fault." Basically, the "*" finds any number o
characters, even though I want it to find only one word.

Does anyone have any pointers
 
Use

<[A-Z][a-z]{1,} fault

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
Attempting to 'bump' your post to the top is considered poor
netiquette in the newsgroups just as cutting in line at the movie
theatre is poor etiquette. :-)

If anything it can prevent you from obtaining the answer you are
seeking. Everyone's post is equally important and if everyone
attempted to do the same the groups would be a traffic nightmare!

Also, FWIW WordForums.com is *not* a private forum. They slurp the
posts from the public newsgroups (Usenet) which can be accessed from a
various web sites and newsreaders. For example if you use Outlook
Express this link will start OE and add this newsgroup for you:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.newusers

Not to mention you'll find posts and answers appear in minutes where
I've noticed it may take hours for answers to appear in
WordForums.com! I suspect that could be part of the problem here.
You've received a few reply to your question, posted 7 hours before
this one, and it looks like they have yet to appear on WordForms.com.

Additionally the majority of newsreaders and other web interfaces
designed to access the newsgroups do not place the most recent post at
the top. Instead it is added as another post in the same thread. IOW,
your recent post did not change the position of your original post on
my end so the only thing it got you was this wonderful reply from me.
<grin>

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