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If you only want to clear lines beginning with // use the following. ^//.* with regular expression enabled. The '^' symbol matches the start of a line. Your original search string answers the question on how to "delete all lines which has //". The one above is for "Deleting a line hav...

Helios have always made it very clear they will not speculate on future features. As I’ve said before that’s their right but cuts both ways. This can work to their advantage if they avoid advertising features or a roadmap they are not subsequently able to achieve. It works to their disadvantage ...

I think it's unlikely that TextPad is the best tool for this. TextPad is a plain text editor for editing [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor]plain text files[/]. Microsoft word files are binary files and there is no simple 1:1 correspondance between the text searched for and the internal s...

You need to perform the following search and replace: Find what: ^.*> Replace with: Nothing - leave it blank With regular expression enabled and POSIX regular expression syntax enabled in the general preferences. This searches for repetition '*' of any character '.' following a new line '^' up to a ...

I could be wrong but I suspect Word is turning your 'straight quotes' into ‘smart quotes’. If you can live with it and turn off Word's autocorrect options for this you will be able to copy and paste them. 1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab....

Forgive posting this in enhancements. It’s not an enhancement request, I’m just curious to see what fonts people use in TextPad. I tend to obsess on this topic and haven’t yet found my perfect fixed width font. At the moment I’m favouring Droid Sans Mono but have run through many from Andale...

It would help if you can post an example showing the BEFORE and AFTER text you would want.

It sounds like WildEdit might be a better solution to this problem.

You need to perform the following search and replace: Find what: ^STRING1 With regular expression enabled and POSIX regular expression syntax enabled in the general preferences. I'm assuming from your example that STRING1 does not vary and that it is always at the start of a line.The character '^' i...

Microsoft's Consolas is quite a nice fixed width font. Another good choice is the DejaVu family of fonts that have already been recommended, although the Unicode capability of these font may not get a heavy workout in TextPad. Have a look at Inconsolata too in case that suits you. PS Congratulations...

That works beautifully in TextPad which is a great starting point. In the application I am using it starts on a new line and then will match over multiple lines until an @ character which may be some lines down. In my example it would match from '- Some text' through to the @. I think I always need ...

This isn't a query related specifically to the regular expression engine in TextPad - I suspect it can't be done in TextPad. Is there anyway to stop a regular expression match ending either at a specific character or at the end of a line? - Some Text (19/09/10) - More Text @home @today For example i...

Thanks Bob. That would also match the first 7 characters of comments, which can also occupy the same space as statement numbers. I didn't say that though, so your suggestion would work on the example I provided.

It assumes you are using Posix regular expression syntax

Thanks Ben, that works great as always.

In this case it's something closer to PCRE.

Is there a nice, elegant regular expression that matches all the following line numbers. They all start as the first character on a new line and the one without the 'E have a space in front of them.