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If there is another forum this should be in, I'd hugely appreciate a tip. I couldn't find one that seemed right and the search results didn't lead to anything to help with this.

Best,
PJ

I'm trying to work out a macro that does the following. All but one piece is set. * selects and COPIES a piece of content in a file (which is to be used as a filename) later * selects a larger group of text content in that file (which is to be saved as a new file) * does 'save as' and clicks 'select...

I don't know how I missed this before. Ben, thank you so very much for the response here. I used that to search inside a file and you're right, it led right to the end! I attempted to search/replace with it on more than one file, figuring if it hit the start of the file too that's fine as I know wha...

Yeah, I do that, but it means I have to do it individually... I have tons of files.

Is there any way to search for, say, "the last line break character in a file" or anything else that might get me to the end of content in a text file?

Well, obviously I was looking at something not applicable, which is just embarrassing. But it was this page

http://superuser.com/questions/427514/w ... nd-of-file

I finally found a reference to "end of file" being slash z. ( /z ) I thought, with the use of that, that I could insert some text into lots of files at the same time, and have it be put in at the end of file. It doesn't work at all. I'm thinking I got something wrong. The code? Is doing se...

Thank you! I was just coming back here to paste in:

[^\x00-\x7F]

Which I found elsewhere and believed was the answer. I note they're a bit diff...

Hi. Search did not turn up anything helpful on this topic. I work with a system that is choking on any file that has a non-ascii character in the text such as a MS Word "smartquote" as one example. But these are fiendishly difficult to "see" plainly in a lot of text. I'm looking ...

Ohhh I didn't know that about the | either -- thank you very much!!

This has to be obvious but I must not be reading the right things! I know that [something]+ will find more than 0/1 of something How do I say, find somewhere between 3 and 12? In this search: ( )([a-z]+[0-9][0-9][t\|q]) I need the characters (a-z) to ONLY be found there are at least 3 chars but no m...

I see -- so you just use the case function first then the replace and it "knows." Thank you very much!

PJ

In the help file it showed that I could search for content and replace it with upper or lowercase (in whole or part) using backslash "u" or "U" with ampersand. This works great. But I can't figure out what to do when I have to specify the \# of a paren value I am replacing, at th...

Oh yeah, that works perfectly. Awesome - and I see what you mean. Thank you so much!

Hi, I'm trying to write something and I almost have it... almost... :-) What I have: 1. This needs to be bolded. The rest does not. There may be several. Sentences, that is. What I need to end up 1. <p><b>This needs to be bolded.</b> The rest does not. There may be several. Sentences, that is.</p> S...