Latex find and replace

Question

I want to avoid all reference quoting in my work. That is replace all [num] with null string. Deleting thousands of that manually is painstaking. Could a code be written for it.? NB: i copy pasted the text and [num] came along with it. I want to remove those. Texmaker is the editor I’m using.

Its looks like this

\chapter{name}

I just copied and pasted here and[2] came along with it. 
I want to remove that. I have created my work and it was in 
the end that it occurred to me there were unintended citations[3].

There’s a lot of \chapters, \sections and \subsections and to manually remove it by reading every para is tedious. So i was wondering if there’d be a code to help me solve this issue.

Welcome to the site. This seems not difficult. Can you please add a minimale example of your code. — touhami, Nov 29 '18 at 06:59
Does that mean that the text in your .tex document (not only in the PDF output) already only contains [4] etc. and not \cite{sigfridsson}? — moewe, Nov 29 '18 at 07:37

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

With texmaker you can use regular expression search/replace feature. Initiate the replace via CNTL+R or select Edit/Replace from the pull down menu

Click the + button on the right and select Regular Expression.

In the Find dialog box enter \[[0-9]*\] and select Replace All.

This should delete all occurrences of text such as [8], [75], etc.

Notes:

Other options including using external tools to this are listed at Automatically replace all |foo| with \abs{foo}.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '18 at 07:10

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You can use \def\cite#1{\null} to avoid all cite reference in the text but use \nocite{*}, otherwise your reference list will be empty.

\nocite{*} will show all the reference you have (cited/uncited)

Hopes this helps

answered Nov 29 '18 at 07:10

Samjith

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Thanks. But i copy pasted the text and [num] was with it. I was wondering if there’d be a way remove those. – Aswin Prasad Nov 29 '18 at 07:15
then you can use some regex to remove those. which editor are you using? – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:22
okay. But the thing is I have zero knowledge about latex and worse I have literally zero seconds before my deadline . So if it’d be fine could you tell me the whole code – Aswin Prasad Nov 29 '18 at 07:25
which editor (fte/notepad/vim/ms word etc..) are you using, i will tell you the regex command to replace – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:27
texmaker that’s what your asking right? – Aswin Prasad Nov 29 '18 at 07:30
yes!. Actually i am not familiar with that editor. Do you know vim? – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:35
Why don't you try https://typeset.io to format your paper. you can format your paper, even you have 0 knowledge in LaTeX – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:38
I’m sorry I’m not getting anything. – Aswin Prasad Nov 29 '18 at 07:52
Please see the below link https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/432218/how-to-insert-submatches-from-regular-expression-in-texstudio – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:56
like that you can Find: [(\d+)] Replace: – Samjith Nov 29 '18 at 07:57
that’s not working. Its not even finding those square brackets. – Aswin Prasad Nov 29 '18 at 14:36
[(\d+)] Is this works? – Samjith Nov 30 '18 at 13:40
nope it doesn’t – Aswin Prasad Nov 30 '18 at 15:23
@AswinPrasad I think you will have to give us a few more details about what you want to do and about what you are trying so far. (See also my comment under your question.) Firstly, it is still not clear to me how your source .tex file looks like. Do you have [1] in your source or real citations such as \cite{sigfridsson}? If you are trying [\d+] or similar to remove [1] and friends, do you even use an editor that has RegExp capabilities? You mentioned TeXmaker, which AFAIK doesn't do RegExp. So you would have to use a different editor. – moewe Nov 30 '18 at 21:10
@moewe i have like this [1] kind of citation. TexMaker is the editor i use but I don’t know if it has RegExp capabilities. – Aswin Prasad Dec 01 '18 at 02:34

Latex find and replace

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