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Just an idea here...
(and there might already be a smarter way to get the same effect).

I work at a high school and have tons of stuff archived regarding students. Lately I find myself with a list of kids--for example:
Jonny Doe
Amy Smith
Dan Johnson
That I have to do same research on.

My current workflow is to copy-n-paste each name into the <Ctrl+F> Find Box, then drag the needed items to a PaperFolder (or a DropStack Icon, now ). One search per student.

If possible, it would be cool for that Find Box to detect the <Line Feeds> or <carriage returns> or whatever they are, and change them to "OR," such that the above three-line list would get converted to:
Jonny Doe OR Amy Smith OR Dan Johnson when pasted in...

Thots?

It's already doable with scripting, as you probably may have imagined.
You set up the search and save it as search template. Then you write a little script that takes in input the list of scholars > replace <crlf>'s with OR's > setkey such string in the proper key of the search template ini > and finally fires the search.

Marco wrote:It's already doable with scripting, as you probably may have imagined....

Thanks for the reply. Yea, I figured it could probably be scripted. Maybe I will post it as a request on the Script sub-forum. As it turns out, I also figured out how to do the replacements via Clipboard Help+Spell, which has text manipulation presets...

Maybe I will post it as a request on the Script sub-forum

Cool thanks Highend!

I'm curious, what does the "e" do? Is it a temporary variable or something? I've noticed that variables in XY script are often (usually?) single letters...

Might work more on this script if I get a chance... I'll post any questions on the Script Help forum though

I'm curious, what does the "e" do?

It belongs to the formatlist command and removes empty items. Otherwise you'd get a trailing " OR" at the end of the line...