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Try the help: How To ... | Find and Replace Text | Use Regular Expressions and the following pages. There are another couple of good references available in addition to the help file. There is a Regular Expression Tutorial website that may be worth a look. O'Reilly have a Regular Expression Pocket ...

I just tried this fairly recently to try to find a way to manipulate some data.

You can read the file in but it is not truly human readable. I would recommend you export the Excel data as comma separated values first, turning it into a proper text file.

It sounds as though with Keyman the user has to be familiar with each keyboard layout to use it. I didn't seen any screenshots showing how the application works, I imagine some system tray switch of keyboard layout but would love to see more if there are links. UniPad has the character map to input ...

Thanks for that. With that pointer I just spotted the (Note the extra pairs of brackets in the help file. It now works as advertised. I have removed the superfluous escape characters but will stick with [0-9] as it saves me 18 characters in the search string. Cheers (This is all to strip out dates ...

I am using a regular expression to remove some dates from a file. I want to make the following change: /Title (19/04/2005DMG Document Review) becomes... /Title (DMG Document Review) The regular expression starts \/Title \([:digit:] but I am finding that it matches strings beginning... /Title (G and ...

SteveH asks a reasonable question concerning logic which I read as: "Does the fact that a post is a deliberate trashing of TextPad make it any the less a valid complaint?" I didn't see the original post as being a trashing of TextPad in any way. I too have noticed that often these queries on the ...

Somebody should put up a table showing the registration dates and first posts of all these threads. I've seen more than one at least where the first post and date of registration were the same. Does that make it any less valid? If mo's theory is true then I would find it heartening that for many ...

I also see the same thing under Windows2000.

Agreed, but it would help to have access to the characters in each code page rather than having to work in hex.

TextPad does not properly support Unicode.

It would be nice if it did wouldn't it?

The UniPad character map is pretty close to what I am thinking of. I think it could be made so much prettier though. It just looks so old-skool compared to TP.

One failing of all the text editors I have tried that claim to support Unicode is that there seems to be no way to get the characters in there easily. Notwithstanding all of the pretty screenshots showing multiple language support within a single document, the route available to input this data is ...

If you're not, it's \| ; if you are, it's | . Checking the TP help file, there seem to be only two differences between POSIX and non-POSIX expression, the one above and {min,max} . The OR expression above is certainly a lot simpler. Are there other factors that lead to POSIX being a better choice?

Say you have a range of strings as shown below
And want to find banana or juice then you need to use the regular expression shown below.

banana\|juice

This should extend to use in find in files

There is another thread on monospace fonts at http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5895.

I never did find the truly Grand Unified Font but went for TheSans Mono in a moment of madness.

My guess would be that Word smart (typographers) quotes are not included in the font you are using. When I tried this it worked for most fonts but one or two (such as courier) produced blocks as you describe.