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I am trying to replace all blanks in the 105th position with a zero but i am not doing something right. Here is an example of a line i am working on. the 105th position is the blank in front of the 4. Right now the 4 gets replaced with a 0. TROIS-RIVIERES SUBARU 4 02 D1 this is my find expression: ^...

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works like a charm.

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1,,19166100
2,,19179581
3,,fw127

the , represents a space.

the end result would look like this:

00119166100
00219179581
003fw127

hope this makes everything a bit more clear. sorry for the confusion.

thanks for the quick response

i have a file which looks like this: 1 19166100 2 19179581 3 FW127 i need to replace <character><space><space> with <zero><zero><character> where the character can be any number between one and 9. i know how to replace the blanks with zeros but i can't figure out how to keep the character without re...

because i replaced the - with a # only on the lines that began with the codes i needed, i was then able to just use find and delete all once it had done the change. i could not get the \1 not to leave a space. i am new to textpad so maybe i will figure it out eventually but i was running out of time...

thanks for the quick and helpful responses. this was my final solution. i used find # (to make sure the symbol did not already exist in my data) i used your find (^158.*)- i changed the replace to: \1# (regular exp on and using replace all) i repeated the replace all until the program responded with...

thanks very much for your reply.
the replace command of \1 replaces the - with a blank so my end result looks like:

158CB 125U

i need it to look like this:

158CB125U

any suggestions would be appreciated.

I am trying to find rows beginning with 158 and containing a - The dash can be in different positions. Some rows may even contain more than one. The file contains rows that begin with codes other than 158 but do contain a dash. They should be ignored. Once I find the row beginning with 158 and conta...

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that's does the trick

i am trying to insert a "#" in front of any line that has "299" in the 63rd space of the row i can find the lines using ^.{63}299 i can't grasp how to then tell textpad to insert a # at the beginning of the line without deleting any of the existing information. i have looked thro...