Is there a way to do this

[prabhu_kar]

Hey ,

Was wondering if it is possible at all to do the following

Input

LT.txt(829): Url: https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/tradeRepo ... d_on_r.gif
LT.txt(832): Transaction time: 0.049 seconds
LT.txt(833): Time to first byte: 0.048 seconds
LT.txt(861): Url: https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/JSX/js/ie7/jsx.js
LT.txt(864): Transaction time: 0.305 seconds
LT.txt(865): Time to first byte: 0.045 seconds
LT.txt(892): Url: https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/JSX/css/ie/JSX.css
LT.txt(895): Transaction time: 0.014 seconds
LT.txt(896): Time to first byte: 0.012 seconds
LT.txt(923): Url: https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/JSX/images/spc.gif
LT.txt(926): Transaction time: 0.046 seconds
LT.txt(927): Time to first byte: 0.045 seconds


Output

https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/tradeRepo ... d_on_r.gif, Transaction time: 0.049 seconds,Time to first byte: 0.048 seconds
https://www.LT.com/bptraderep/JSX/js/ie7/jsx.js, Transaction time: 0.305 seconds,Time to first byte: 0.045 seconds
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It sounds wierd, but I need to collate a huge file from probably a lot of test cases.I can still do kind of a workaround in EXCEL but would be great I can do it from Textpad


Appreciate any help ...

Thanks
PS

[talleyrand]

So if I'm reading your request correctly, the pattern looks like
Url: Something
Line 2 data
Line 3 data

and you want it to be
Something, Line 2 data, Line 3 data

A macro would work for this but as a regular expression, assuming POSIX regular expressions are used, something like

Search for: Url: (.*)\n(.*)\n(.*)\n
Replace with: \1,\2,\3

If the file names and line numbers are actually preceding it, then the expression could be

Search for: .*: Url: (.*)\n.*\): (.*)\n.*\): (.*)
Replace with: \1,\2,\3

[prabhu_kar]

The final string was kind of like this ,

Url: (.*)\n.*\Transaction time: (.*) seconds\n.*\Time to first byte: (.*) seconds\n


I needed to pull out the data I need and move it to Excel This works like a charm


Thanks for showing how to do it ...

Thanks
Prabhu