Topic: Select text by number of characters

[Willie]

Is it posible to select text by number of characters with plain jane Autocad?

We have a survey with height, code and a point where the spot shot was taken.  The origin of the height is slightly to the left of the point. The distance varies for heights between four and five characters.

I need to select al the text objects with four characters and move them to the correct position and then select al the text with five characters and move them correct position.

[Bob Wahr]

You can use QSELECT, object type = text, properties = contents, operator = wildcard match, value = ???? or ?????

[Willie]

Cool Bob

We recieve drawings that was created with with some weird surveying software.  It tries to put the decimal point of the text on the place that the spot shot was taken.  If they export it to dwg, the origin of the text moves away from the point.  The distance it moves from the point is a function of the number of characters in the text.

Thanks