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? Would someone please add this to the bug list?

Please??

I meant a fix to TextPad. But I guess not.

Would someone please add this to the bug list? Thanks.

> TextPad's regular expression recogniser doesn't allow them to refer
> back over a newline.

So it seems. Is there a fix?

ben_josephs wrote:Where do TextPad's docs say that its regex recogniser recognises \d?

Whoops, sorry, my error - report now corrected. And fault still present.

TextPad 5.2.0 Find what:

\([[:digit:]]*\)\n\1

(with '[X] Regular expression') says

Invalid regular expression

This behaviour fails to accord with the docs.

Is there a fix?

Ho ho ;)

I have a decent editor (not TextPad), thanks.

Can anyone suggest an alternative to WE that will directly accept 600 regexp-replacement pairs? Thanks.

> Do you mean that if the first regular expression matches > then the first replacement expression should be used, and so on? Yup. > What you need is conditional expressions. Oh dear! > Of course, you'll need to use TextPad to create > your regular and replacement expressions... Why is TextPad needed?

> How are you going to apply the corresponding replacements correctly?

Put the 600 lines the "Replace with:"?

I have 600 one-line regexps and corresponding replacementpatterns which I need to apply to about 100 files. How to I do this? I seem unable to get Replace to recognise the 600 lines as separate expressions.

Thanks.

Excellent - thanks Ben.

> Replace with: NOTHING

Thanks, but I need e.g.

>> á -> a, í -> i

I want to remove the diacritics from a few dozen characters e.g. á -> a, í -> i etc. in hundreds of files.

Is there any way I can do the set in one operation? I do not want to do one char at a time, every file being touched ones for every character replacement.

Thanks.

Thanks!

Thanks, Ben > Which part of this didn't work for you? None i.e. it all worked. Whereas to show my problem, I did this: 1 In Textpad, File | New, and enter aa[RETURN] 2 Edit | Select All, Edit | Copy 3 In Word, enter bb[RETURN] 4 Click between the b's, and Edit | Paste. What I expect is b aa b What I...