Is realize this is an older post, but after trying to use the ideas presented in the post above by Michael http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbull...06&postcount=3, but found it didn't work for my situation.
After recreating the example though, it did work, hmmmm...
I then found if I changed the example elements to:
alpha-123.txt <--> alpha-12
It stopped working.
The added dash seems to interfere with the alignment override even though the pattern (.{7}).*\.(.*) would seem to imply match any / all of the first 7 characters?
Is this a bug? If not, how do I work around this issue when the file could contain one of more dashes, or other characters that 'trip up' the .{7}? And what is the list of characters that cause this issue?
Thanks,
Mark
After recreating the example though, it did work, hmmmm...
I then found if I changed the example elements to:
alpha-123.txt <--> alpha-12
It stopped working.
The added dash seems to interfere with the alignment override even though the pattern (.{7}).*\.(.*) would seem to imply match any / all of the first 7 characters?
Is this a bug? If not, how do I work around this issue when the file could contain one of more dashes, or other characters that 'trip up' the .{7}? And what is the list of characters that cause this issue?
Thanks,
Mark
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