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by encleadus
Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace double quotes within double quotes
Replies: 4
Views: 647

By newline, do you mean \n? Each record is on one line; I don't understand why I would have to change newlines to something else? I was hoping I could do something like ...,"any or no character"anycharacter"any or no character",... between the delimiters (commas) find the inner quotes, with any or ...
by encleadus
Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace double quotes within double quotes
Replies: 4
Views: 647

Replace double quotes within double quotes

Hi, tried searching and couldn't find an answer, this is the closest thread I could find: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=7698 I am trying to find and replace double quotes that are within another set of double quotes between commas with single quotes, i.e.: ,12344,"text",absd,5830,"This ...
by encleadus
Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Find values not matching a pattern
Replies: 5
Views: 938

@ben_josephs: Thanks so much, that works great! I was missing using the | for alternate matching. It seems so simple now looking at it :D Anything but 1 as the first character, or anything but 0-3 as second or anything but 0-9 as third or ... and so on. @Kaizyn: That did work, but only when the ...
by encleadus
Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Find values not matching a pattern
Replies: 5
Views: 938

I wanted to identify any data that didn't match the pattern as a validation step. If there was any data that didn't match this pattern, I could identify it and correct the problem. I hadn't used bookmarks before, but that seems to work. Instead of Edit->Delete->Bookmarked Lines, I just did Edit ...
by encleadus
Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Find values not matching a pattern
Replies: 5
Views: 938

Find values not matching a pattern

Hello, I am trying to find values that do not match a particular pattern. My data is in the format: 123P45678 107N94861 132P59304 where: the first character should always be a 1, the second character should always be a 0, 1, 2, or 3, the third character should be any number 0-9, the fourth character ...