Comments on: Textpad Regular Expressions

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:47:45 +0000

I have a file with lines that look like the following:

KFY Korn Ferry International Q4 2010 $ 0.13 14-Jun AMC
LAKE Lakeland Industries Q1 2011 n/a 14-Jun AMC
LZB La-Z-Boy Inc. Q4 2010 $ 0.23 14-Jun AMC
373400.T M.P. TECHNOLOGIES INC TOKYO Q3 2010

I would like to replace each line with the first “word” of that line provided that that word does not begin with a digit. The resulting lines of text would be:

KFY
LAKE
LZB

What would the regex look like? Any help would be appreciate. Thanks!

By: Yves

Yves — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:13:45 +0000

Hello,
I have a huge file (50000 lines) that comes from a translation memory application. The export went well but there was on glitch with every single title in the doc. There is no space between the bullet-numbers (or numbers+dot) and the text.
Here is how it looks:
3.1.International Organizations
3.1.1.World Bank
OR
3.1International Organizations
3.1.1World Bank
How would I insert space between a digit (or a digit+dot) and the alpha character while maitining the corresponding digit (or digit+dot) and character.
I would like to achieve this
3.1. International Organizations
3.1 International Organizations
Thank you kindly,
Yves (New Caledonia)

By: Graham Wells

Graham Wells — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:35:33 +0000

just got a quick question..I need to list down email address in a messy text..can anyone say how to write rg expression for that??

By: Adnan

Adnan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:53:33 +0000

Hi,i want to replace two tags from one tag. i want to see both replacing tags in separate lines, not in same line.
Any reply will be appreciating. Thanks

Example:

“separate lines”
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By: tony

tony — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:37:37 +0000

YOU ROCK!
Thank you so much for the “Add “Hello ” to the beginning and ” World” to the end of every line” example.

By: matelot

matelot — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:46:53 +0000

thanks !
“Remove spaces and tab characters at the end of a line” is what I’m looking for.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:01:35 +0000

Here’s how to convert csv to xml with a (quite large) regexp you can alter/extend for your needs.

Regexp:
^"$[[:print:]]+$","$[[:print:]]+$","$[[:print:]]+$"

replace with:
\1\2\3

Cheers

Paul

By: Waldemar

Waldemar — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:29:56 +0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for posting about the Textpad Regular Expressions.

I have a question.
In a txt-file I’m trying to remove all text between curly brackets including the curly brackets themselves.

I can’t seem to get the regular expression right.

Could you give me some help?

Much obliged,

Waldemar

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:32:57 +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 20:57:26 +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