Search and Replace in autoCAD 2010

[muck]

Using AutoCAD 2010.

 

In a drawing I would trying to change #12 to #10 with AutoCAD's search and replace feature and it

did not work. What can be the problem here? It there a good text search replace Lisp or VBA routine

routine that is better than AutoCAD's routine? Is so where is it located on the net?

Thank you,

[ReMark]

I just did a quick test using AutoCAD 2012 and it works. Not sure what is the cause of your problem.

 

Another quick test but this time I used AutoCAD 2010. Inserted thirteen copies of the text and did a Find/Replace to and it worked.

 

Try it in a new drawing and see what happens.

 

Last test. Opened AutoCAD 2007. Did the same as above. Result: Failed to find any occurrences of #12 in the drawing.

 

Since you are just changing the number 2 to a zero why bother with the "#" sign at all?

Edited September 29, 2011 by ReMark

[rkent]

Use an apostrophe before the # sign, otherwise it is seen as a wildcard, in this case # = any numeric digits.

 

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'#12

[ReMark]

I don't understand why it works on my 2010 and 2012 versions but not in the OP's 2011 version.

[Jack_O'neill]

In the 2010 find and replace dialog, be sure you pull the arrow down that shows your options. It may be that you have something unchecked.

 

I tried it on my 07 machine and had the same result. The # screws it up. In 2007 the # is a special character, not plain text.

 

From 2007 help file:

Note Whether AutoStack is on or off, the pound character is always converted to a diagonal fraction, and the carat character is always converted to a tolerance format.

 

 

When I tell 07 to replace # with z, it leaves the # and replaces both digits following it with z (in other words it leaves the string #zz).

 

 

Autodesk apparently improved the find and replace engine in 2010 because although # will still serve that function, the replace function doesn't ignore it now.

[rkent]

Jack,

I think the OP has "use wildcards" box checked, they need to uncheck that.