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I am using the search => replace function.

In the field "find what", I have @
In the field "replace with", I have a blank space

When I click replace all, I get the error message Cannot find regular expression '@'

Could someone advise how to get around this? I also get the same message when I ...

I'm not sure if this is possible or not but thought I would ask.

I have a plain text document that has some unique characters within it. I'm not sure if the forum will edit it, but here is one example, it looks like a italic B

Special character => ß

Is there any way using textpad to remove all ...

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Yes, I seem to be pulling my hair out with this file which is over a gig in size. Prior to posting, I did search the board, came across a few old posts, tried the suggestions and had no luck similar to the others.

I ended up splitting the file into smaller files and am currently sorting and ...

How would I get around an error message "Disk full while accesing the file xxxxxxx"

The pc is an XP Pro, 2.6 gig, with 1 gig of ram. In an effort to try and resolve the issue, I did increase the virtual ram up to as high as a min of 2.5, without any luck.

There is only one partition on this drive ...

I have a large text file. Many of the lines in the text files have spaces on the left before the text actually starts. The number of spaces varies from line to line.

I would like to have it all aligned on the far left of the file. Is there any easy way to do this?

As an example, below is some text ...

Thank you, I did check all the settings. I ended up increasing the size of the swap file just a bit more, cold booting the pc and was able to work with this large file.

It was interesting in that once I did a remove duplicate lines, the file is now just over half the original size (about 450 meg).

I have a 2.6 gig intel processor, 50 gig hard drive and 1 gig of ram. The
pc runs XP Pro.

I have a 750 meg text file that I opened up in textpad. I tried to run a
sort in alphabetical order and remove duplicate items. At this point, I
received a low on virtual memory message. The pc then came to ...

I'm trying to search for specific text and replace it with carriage returns but can't get it to work with textpad. In Word, I used to be able to do this and replace what I needed with a special character ^p

As an example, let's say I have the following single line (hopefully posting won't break ...

Thank you, that did the trick

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Does textpad have a means to strip html tags from text? Notetab light has this function, but I don't think it compares to textpad.

Thank you

Jason