Search and replace - Email address [SOLVED]

[andy2509]

Hi all,

I'm looking to modify the email addresses in my data set. The current format of data is:

"<field1>","<field2>","<field3>","<emailid">,"<field5>"

Sample records look like this:
"jdoe","jd","01234y","jdoe@email.com","xyz"
"user2","ts","0123456x","user2@email.net","abcd"

I'm looking for a regex that finds and replaces all mail id's (in column 4) to a static string (e.g, mymail@mail.com).

I'd appreciate any help on this.

Thanks,
Andy

[ben_josephs]

Assuming that each field in the original text begins and ends with a double quote and does not contain a double quote:

Find what: ^(("[^"]*",){3})"[^"]*"
Replace with: \1mymail@mail.com

[X] Regular expression

If you want the new email address surrounded by double quotes:

Find what: ^(("[^"]*",){3})"[^"]*"
Replace with: \1"mymail@mail.com"

[X] Regular expression

These assume you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

[andy2509]

Thank you Ben! This works like a charm.

Andy