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:
* 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.[#] matches numbers (0-9)
Example
Matches
"Book.p[#].pdf"
or
[#].p[#].pdfBook.p1.pdf, book.p2.pdf, book.p3.pdf, and so on.
19823.p1.pdf, 9800.p1.pdf, 20030131.p1,pdf[$] matches letters or numbers (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Example
Matches
"[$].p1.pdf"
book.p1.pdf, brochure.p1.pdf, 12345.p1.pdf, abc010103.p1.pdf, and so on.
Adding a colon after #, %, or $ and then a number matches an exact number of characters to the wild card
Note: "[$:5][#].p1.pdf" would give the same results because APA ignores the zero.Example
Matches
"[$:6][#].p1.pdf"
BookA01.p1.pdf BookB02.p1.pdf, BookC03.p1.pdf, and so on.
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.