About wild cards in raw APA
You can use wild cards and pattern matching when you create an APA
file in a text file or in the
Raw APA File
view of the APA Editor.
The wild cards to match page names are:
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* or % match letters (A-Z, a-z)
Example
Matches
"*.p1.pdf"
Or
"[%].p1.pdf"
book.p1.pdf, brochure.p1.pdf, and so on.
If enclosed in quotation marks matches book
cover.p1.pdf, Acme brochure.p1.pdf, and so on.
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[#] matches numbers (0-9)
Example
Matches
"Book.p[#].pdf"
or
[#].p[#].pdf
Book.p1.pdf, book.p2.pdf, book.p3.pdf, and so on.
19823.p1.pdf, 9800.p1.pdf, 20030131.p1,pdf
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[$] matches letters or numbers (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Example
Matches
"[$].p1.pdf"
book.p1.pdf, brochure.p1.pdf, 12345.p1.pdf,
abc010103.p1.pdf, and so on.
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Adding a colon after #, %, or $ and then a number matches an exact
number of characters to the wild card
Example
Matches
"[$:6][#].p1.pdf"
BookA01.p1.pdf BookB02.p1.pdf, BookC03.p1.pdf, and
so on.
Note: "[$:5][#].p1.pdf" would give the same results because APA ignores the
zero.
Pattern matches can also be named and then used as a back reference
to the page set name, page set prefix, position number, and layer
number.
About named patterns as back references in raw APA
You can create named patterns as back references when you create an
APA file in a text file or in the
Raw APA File
view of the APA Editor.
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Chapter 11— Page sets and impositions
