How to format **text** as bold?

PhastCo · 2025-04-14T19:35:48.851Z

API response returns bold text as **text** - any quick tips to format this as bold? Find and replace would just replace both ** pairs at the same time

deejay.shani · 2025-04-14T20:21:20.876Z

PhastCo:

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Here is one way to do it, not sure if it’s the most efficient though.

Use the following regex to find and replace the text between ** pairs.
**(.*?)**

In the next step find and replace the ** with empty text.

ri_scc_94 · 2025-04-15T12:11:25.910Z

That’s how I would do too! Just to further explain because it’s not obvious for those who don’t know regex… to substitute you use “$1” to substitute what’s inside the first parentheses, $2 to substitute what’s inside the second, and so on…
So it would find : …(.*?)…
and replace: $1

(using [b] for the bold setting)