In a Notepad++ or an editor with similar features, is there an easy to search for a word which contains a number? For instance, suppose numbers were denoted by “~”, then if I searched for “abc~” in the following text:
abc4
abc not a number
I would simply get the first word.
Use the “regular expression” search mode. If you just want to find groups of numbers, use
\d+. If you want it to select the whole word containing one or more digits, use\w*\d+\w*.