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David Haslam

I agree.

START.+END

gave same symptoms even in TP 4.7.3

David Haslam

I am using v4.7.3 and have no plan to upgrade to version 5.2

David Haslam

This works for your example:

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START.*END

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1234 START more words END 123 
1234 START xyz END 123 
textpad is fun START abc END la la la

became

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1234  123 
1234  123 
textpad is fun  la la la

You could easily follow it with find two spaces and replace by a single space.

David Haslam

Such a task would be ideally suited to DataMystic TextPipe.

http://www.datamystic.com/

David Haslam

Might I suggest that you consider using DataMystic TextPipe for such a task?

http://www.datamystic.com/

I've been using TextPipe Standard for several years, and have been very pleased with it.

David Haslam

Yes - I knew that (as a long term Textpad user) - but it ain't as neat, and not nearly so obvious to the rookie user.

David Haslam

In IE use {Shift F5} to refresh works.

It surprised me that the page I had not recently visited was still cached.

David Haslam

The Notepad++ Find dialog has a Count button, so why not add such a feature to TextPad?

Knowing how many occurrences there are for your search string can be very useful feedback (and error check) before you move on to perform a search and replace.

David Haslam

The TextPad home page still advertises the latest version as 5.1 rather than 5.2

David Haslam

During the past 12 months I have worked a lot with Unicode files. Anyone needing further tips on Unicode compatible editors could find useful information by searching the Go Bible Forums . See http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/ I currently use Notepad++ and SC Unipad for most needs, but EditPad Lite ...

David Haslam

If you search the internet for the phrase

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Bush hid the facts

you will find amusing tales of how Notepad guesses wrong about whether the text file it is opening is Unicode or not.

See http://www.datamystic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1610

David Haslam

What's wrong about {F8} with Find="," and Replace="" ? (without the quotes!) Or do you want the CSV fields aligned in columns? Try Replace="\t" with Regular Expression ticked. You can adjust the tab spacing for a [new] document class. I once made my own document class called "Tab Separated Variables ...

David Haslam

You might consider Filebox eXtender from http://www.hyperionics.com/

Not exactly what you wanted - but useful nonetheless.

Have you made use of Textpad Workspaces?

David Haslam

Off-topic as regards Textpad, but you might wish to consider DataMystic TextPipe for parsing log files.

http://www.datamystic.com/

I found TextPipe Standard was a ready made solution to process CSV files that had more than 256 fields, so that I could open them using Excel.

David Haslam

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I agree that using star plus gave the same bug

Version

This works for your example

It would be easy to do this using DataMystic TextPipe

Try DataMystic TextPipe instead

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You were right about the cache

Notepad++ Find dialog has a Count button, why not TextPad?

TextPad website home page still shows 5.1 (not 5.2)

I do a lot of work with Unicode files

Even Notepad guesses wrongly about Unicode files

strip out all the COMMAS

File save / file open dialogs in Windows - a solution?

Parsing log file data

Jeffrey Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions