I have been trying to edit what looked like a tab delimited file. After I loaded it and enabled Visible Spaces I saw at a glance what I assumed to be tab marks.
However When I Save'd the file the 'tabs' were replaced by spaces in spite of setting Preferences.
When I looked more closely I see that what I thought were tab marks >> are in fact tiny right pointing triangles.
What sort of file is this; can it be edited in TextPad?
Visible Spaces?
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Without a sample of a file it is very hard to say what sort of file format you have. It may be a file format that uses multiple ways of breaking "records" into elements and attributes, the possibilities are huge. If you have a special file extension to the file then you could "google" it and determine what type of file it is that way.
To simply convert the characters that you think are right triangle field separators into a Space or some other character, the easiest way is to highlight one of the special characters and select find/replace, replace all.
The file encoding also is a factor, is it a plain ANSI file?
To simply convert the characters that you think are right triangle field separators into a Space or some other character, the easiest way is to highlight one of the special characters and select find/replace, replace all.
The file encoding also is a factor, is it a plain ANSI file?
I looked at the file in hex (that brought me back a few years!). There were no special characters where the triangles were appearing in Visible Spaces.
I think that TextPad was putting in the triangles to mark where the tab characters would have appeared as Preferences...Tabulation. However I can't reproduce this.
I have made my backup Read Only and hope for the best.
I think that TextPad was putting in the triangles to mark where the tab characters would have appeared as Preferences...Tabulation. However I can't reproduce this.
I have made my backup Read Only and hope for the best.