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I knew it was me. What a dummy.

Thank you, that worked out perfect.

That was my first attempt to find the first occurrence of a string where it repeated a few times. I was feeling pretty good until I could not get it totally correct. Thank you again.

I am using the following Search/Replace strings. I thought it was working OK but found some random lines that were not being picked up. I have provided four groups in two lines from the source file.

<span class="FirstColumnPrompt">District Code:</span></td><td><span class="Value">04</span>

<span ...

A question for ben_josephs or Bob Hansen:

This is the test string (with spaces):
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%lf% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%lf% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 34 34 0 0 0%lf% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%lf%

The task is to locate the non-zero values. I am using "_" for space char in Search/Replace strings ...

WOW, did not think TextPad RegEx could look back but you guys found another way. I will try this out in the next few days.

PS - I thought thtt Reformat would do the whole document, but with a RegEx I thought I could do different paragraphs selectively by highlighting them.

Also trying to learn ...

How can I make RegEx insert a \n at the last space char before char 65?

I want to do something like word wrap with some long text paragraphs. So If I want a width of 65 or less, I need to repalce the space with \n.

I can insert \n at position 65, but it sometimes ends up in the middle of a word ...

This is a typical sample line showing sometimes a comma/space as delimiter, sometimes in double quotes, not always. Different patterns may change position on each line.

Sample line:
"this is a good piece" "abc" , "5" "66",7

Looking to get these values selected from the line:
1= "this is a good ...

Problem:
Cannot parse string with comma delimiters. Plan to temp replace some commas with tildes, parse the result, then replace the original commas.

Need help to replace "internal" commas with tildes, and remove double quotes. Would like to do in one RegEx if possible.

Replace commas within ...

Another poster who screams about no updates in 2 years, but has posted no bugs here, has not asked for any support or help with problems.

Since no problems in two years, why the frequent crying every six months for an upgrade. Has only posted to two threads, just to cry and moan.

Has not even ...