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The other thing to try is to make a TextPad file containing your example text and run the search and replace on that. bla bla bla ab-cdef-gh-01 bla bla bla bla bla ab-ijkl-gh-07 bla bla bla ab-ijkl-gh-08 bla bla bla bla bla ab-mnop-gh-003 bla bla bla bla bla ab-qrst-gh-05 bla bla: ab-uvw-gh-01 bla b...

what i am trying to do is to copy a whole text and just search for the names and copy them in a new textfile... Can you provide a sample of the file format to see what is required? If you can show this as Code to keep the formatting it will help. To provide a solution you need to provide some guida...

I've just re-read your reply and realised that you probably don't want to cut all the lines that contain the 'ab-' strings as I first thought. ben_josephs answer is appropriate if you want to list them. I'll leave my incorrect answer up in case it's of interest. As an aside, is there a way to delete...

If you perform the following search and replace it will delete all (nearly all - see below) lines containing the string 'ab-' Find what: ^.*ab-.*\n Replace with: [nothing] [ X ] Regular expression Replace All In the preferences make sure you have enabled POSIX regular expressions. This saerches for ...

I think it needs to be a '\' before the 'n'.

You are still using the forward slash '/'.

Can you provide some more information on the sort of text you want to search? Is this structured data or English prose? Is it punctuated in some way?

If this is prose rather than data then words can be separated by spaces, commas, semi colon, question marks etc.

Please post an example.

Droid Sans is an excellent (free) font.

MudGuard's reply shows how to achieve what you set out to do here but it may be that all you are needing to do is put another line feed at the end of each line.

In which case you can search for '$' (the end of line) and use the replacement expression '\n' to add an extra line.

Hope this helps.

Am I correct to interpret it as despite the fact that TextPad Save dialog allows one to say a text file in or ASCII or ANSI or UTF-8, it does not support UTF-8 natively and still needs to translate the characters into code pages? As Helios say it themselves, I think it boils down to... it is only p...

I think what ben_josephs is referring to is the difference between the character set (i.e the supported symbols) and how they are represented (or encoded). The two terms are often used interchangeably. Loking at the '€' symbols as an example: http://img.skitch.com/20110308-ddic9387subqxa4x2ey1j8qe...

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You mean this kind of idea? http://img.skitch.com/20110224-e8agjp8i81y966xdbw5n8jrkpa.png This is something I've previously tried to do in TextPad but I don't think it's possible with the way syntax files are currently configured. The example above uses a competing product which won't be named that ...

I think you are encoutering this problem from the TextPad help file: it is only possible to edit, without data loss, files containing characters from the implied code page. Other characters will be converted into a system default character (normally "?"), if you confirm that is what you wa...

I have two sources I would recommend for regular expression guidance. The first is TextPad's own help file which is a good introduction to regular expression syntax. The best starting point is the topic 'How to Use Regular Expressions' whcih links to 'Regular Expressions' and 'Replacement Expression...

why don't you just change the colour of these characters? The size of the characters is hard-coded so there's not much you can do there - that is down to Helios. I've just changed the colour of them to a nice bright yellow via preferences and then the text colour for the document class. https://img....