Find & Replace Wildcard Expression for Ordinal Numbers

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Fellow Forum Members,
I need to erase a lot of paragraph numbers (shown below) using a Find &
Replace operation. The problem is that 9 has one digit and "10" has two
digits and "120" has three digits. Using the FIND & REPLACE expression
"^#.^#.^#.^#.^#" leaves behind "0" for "10" and "20" for "120". The flaw with
this expression is that it's looking for CARDINAL numbers. Can anyone help me
in developing a wild card expression that will find whatever ORDINAL number
no matter how many digits an allow me to erase it in one single Find &
Replace operation. Thanks in advance for any help.



3.2.1.3.9 Item 1
3.2.1.3.10 Item 2
3.2.1.3.11 Item 3
3.2.1.3.120 Item 3

 

[Graham Mayor]

Look for
[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}
or
[0-9.]{9,}
if there are no other large blocks of numbers
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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