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Is there a way to search a record by column numbers?

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:40 pm
by karipay
Hi.

Just want to know if this is possible in textpad. Searching by column number?


FILE
A2334
B1245
C2134

Search file for column 5 = "4"
A2334
C2134

TIA!

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:48 pm
by ben_josephs
^....4
or
^.{4}4

The second of these assumes you are using Posix regular expression syntax:
Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:59 pm
by karipay
This worked! Thanks a lot!

[quote="ben_josephs"][b][color=blue]^....4[/color][/b]
or
[b][color=blue]^.{4}4[/color][/b]

The second of these assumes you are using Posix regular expression syntax:
[quote][u]C[/u]onfigure | [u]P[/u]references | Editor

[[b][color=blue]X[/color][/b]] Use [u]P[/u]OSIX regular expression syntax[/quote][/quote]