Comments on: Textpad Regular Expressions

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:32:07 +0000

Hi Matt,

If you just want to add “something” and then a line-break to ANY line you could use this:

find: $^.*$

replace: \1something

It’s the use of parenthesis that allow the ‘replacement expression’ to work.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:57:57 +0000

Textpad help, To make a long story short, do you know how find say a number sequence and replace with additional text without changing the number you used to search on it the first place?

find: [0-9]\n$
replace with: keep the same only add something unique to the ending [same as before]~\n

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:09:21 +0000

Thanks. This was really helpful.

I’ve been using TextPad for everything — with the exception of exploding X12 files. The files are one really long line with segments separated by tildes (~). I tried doing a find/replace on “~” and replacing them with a new line character “\n” but TextPad would always put the actual text “\n” instead of breaking the line. In these cases I would always open the file in Word and use their find/replace to replace the tildes with new paragraphs “^p” and then copy the result back into TextPad.

Now I know that in TextPad all I have to do for this to work is to check the “Regular Expression” box and it works!

Thanks a bunch!!