Re: regex for a range that has a given number?

On 22-Apr-2010, at 10:14, Peng Yu wrote:
>
> I frequently need to search for citations in papers by citation
> numbers.
>
> For exmaple, something like [7] [2-8] [2,4,8-10] in the maintext
> represent what articles that are listed in the bibliography are cited.
> Now, I want to search for where it cites citation number 7 in the
> maintext (in this example, it is cited the three places in the
> maintext).
>
> But I don't see a very general way to search for such citation. I
> suppect this may not be done by regex for every cases. But I'm not
> sure. Do anybody have a good solution?

Why can't you search for \[7\]

Or am I missing something. is 2-8 also valid for 7? If so, I think you are out of luck for regex.

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