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I found this symbol within some code tags in an electronics forum:
⦿

But in TextPad it pasted as '?' and I could not see it in the Clip Library.

Yet it pastes OK in both Notepad and Excel.

Thanks, that works fine. I follow the Find what , now that I see '\d' as a neat alternative to [0-9]. (Is the latter now not generally used?) But can you explain the Replace with please? Why two uses of '$'? How can two things be 'at the end of a line'? Or is '$' confusingly an alternative to '\'? A...

I re-discovered the '+' suffix (I'd been placing braces around it) but this Find: ([0-9]{2})(.*)([0-9]+) Replace with: \1\2\(\3\) delivered this 05 Baroque 11(7) 06 Female Vocals 24(0) 07 Christmas 12(8) that's '8' in brackets, not an emoticon as it displays here! 08 Conniff 18(5) 09 Easy, Ambient,e...

I want to convert lines like these 05 Baroque 117 06 Female Vocals 240 07 Christmas 128 08 Conniff 85 09 Easy, Ambient,etc 184 10 Movies-Musicals-etc 410 into 05 Baroque #1 (117) 06 Female Vocals #1 (240) 07 Christmas #1 (128) 08 Conniff #1 (85) etc IOW, add the fixed string '#1', put the 2 or 3 dig...

Indeed, quite a bug for discussions about regex! Particularly cases like this. Never spotted that before, thanks.

In fact my target strings can also occur anywhere in a line. I'll remember to add that spec here in future.

Thanks! Saw your impressively fast reply as I was coming back to proudly present the solution I came up with:
Seemed to work on first tests. Does that look reliable?

I've been trying various regex expressions but so far in vain.

How do I change lines like this:
/*Set volume to 20*/

to this:
// Set volume to 20

IOW replace '/*' by '// ' (note the space), and delete '*/'

Excellent - thank you so much! Works fine.

And now that I see it, I realise I should have been able to do it myself.

Terry

It's obviously easy in two, but in a single step how can I get from this
2020-12-29_12-34-56.mp4
to this
20201229-123456.mp4
please?

Terry

Thanks a bunch, that was really bugging me!

In my shed workshop I use an old PC with an even older version of TextPad, 7.5.1. I use it rarely but was frustrated this morning that I could not drag two document windows to resize them within the screen, for comparing. I’m so used to doing so on my more modern PC in the house, with a slightly n...

Mysteriously I now have somehow got the correct association back. No idea what caused the loss or the recovery!

I think this area is quite confusing in Win 10. The list of 'Default Apps' covers only six, and TEXT is not one of them. A strange omission IMO!

D-clicking a TXT file in Win 10 File Explorer normally opens it in .my text editor, TextPad. Now it opens no program. (Not sure why; could be down to my playing with the obscure setting 'Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM'.) So I used 'Choose default applications by file type' and set TXT to TextPad, but n...

Thanks, that is indeed much simpler!

OK, it came to me a few minutes later thanks. I hope this is correct?

Find
([^ ])([ ]+)

and replace with

\1

(That's \1 plus a space.)