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 |
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"*.p1.pdf" | book.p1.pdf, brochure.p1.pdf, and so on. |
[#] matches numbers (0-9)
Example | Matches |
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"Book.p[#].pdf" | Book.p1.pdf, book.p2.pdf, book.p3.pdf, and so on. |
[$] matches letters or numbers (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Example | Matches |
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"[$].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
Example | Matches |
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"[$: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.