Wildcards using [ ] characters

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I am having some problems with the [ ] wildcards...

I have a chat log that's basically setup like...
[15:22:38] Name: message

I want to highlight all of the ones with the time stamp
Using the wildcards, I tried
[??:??:??]
which is correct except for the [ ] which are used in the wildcard formulas
if I am not mistaken...

Anyone know how I could get around this??
 
Jacob,

To find a literal wildcard expression use \ in front of the expression. If
the time stamp information is the only information within square brackets,
they you should be able to use:


\[*\]
 
G'Day Jacob,

Try: \[??:??:??\]
(Or: \[*\] )

The \[ tells word to search for [ as a character. Without
this the [ has a special meaning.
 
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