Text Formatting ⇒ Get value of ref argument

[yiorgosb]

I have been given a book where the key of many references has been replaced with the real value.

For example instead of \ref{chonertwo} it writes \ref{1-2} (referencing to equation 1-2).
Of course this results to an error of missing reference.

Is there any way to trick latex to ignore the argument and to display only the value of?
Or I have to get used to the idea that I need to change every ref occurrence in the entire book?

[sommerfee]

Is there any way to trick latex to ignore the argument and to display only the value of?

You could simply redefine \ref so it will just printout its value, e.g.:

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\renewcommand\ref[1]{#1}

or

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\renewcommand\ref[1]{\textit{#1}}

or whatever you want.

[yiorgosb]

Is there any way to trick latex to ignore the argument and to display only the value of?

You could simply redefine \ref so it will just printout its value, e.g.:

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\renewcommand\ref[1]{#1}

or

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\renewcommand\ref[1]{\textit{#1}}

or whatever you want.

Thanks.
That will definitely make my life easier.
However, there are still some \ref{} which contain actual references.

So the question now is, if there's a way to identify if a character is numerical or number so to determine which \ref{} it is. Something like
if{isnum{x}}
renewcommand
else
act normal