Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression

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[edit] Regular expression definitions

[edit] Regular expression examples

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[edit] Tips and tricks

[edit] User made shortcut editing macros

You can make your own shortcut editing macros. When you edit an page, you can enter your short-cut macro keys into the page anywhere you want AWB to act upon them.

For example you are examining an page in the AWB edit box. You see numerous items like adding {{fact}}, inserting line breaks <br>, commenting out entire lines <!-- comment -->, inserting state names, <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>, insert Level 2,3,or even 4 headlines, etc... This can all be done by creating your short-cut macro keys.

• The process

1. Create a rule. See Find and replace, Advanced.
2. Edit your page in the edit box. Insert your short-cut editing macro key(s) anywhere in the page you want AWB to make the change(s) for you.
3. Re-parse the page. Right click on the edit box and select Re-parse from the context pop up menu. AWB will then re-examine your page with your macro short-cut key(s), find your short-cut key(s) and preform the action you specified in the rule.

Naming a short-cut macro key can be any name. But it is best to try and make it unique so that it will not interfere with any other process that AWB may find and suggest. For that reason using /// followed by a set of lowercase characters that you can easily remember is best (lowercase is used so that you do not have to use the shift key). You can then enter these short-cut macros keys you create into the page manually or by using the edit box context menu paste more function. The reason why we use three '/' is so that AWB will not confuse web addresses/url's in an page when re-parsing.

Examples:

Create a rule as a regular expression.