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I'm blind; I use MSReader to read ebooks aloud. It works; But, when files have built in garbage (page headers, footers, numbers, garbage characters, I go crazy. So, I need nice clean .txt files that may be converted to .lit format.

I find TextPad very usefull for cleaning up these .txt files. But, I am having trouble in understanding REs (Regular Expression) usage.

For example, In the following text:

"Jill Meyers was a smoothly competent pilot, Kinsman knew from their weeks of training in Texas. But so is Smitty,

and D'Angelo . . . and Colt."

There is a "hardcoded" return "\n" after "Smitty," and before "and D'Angelo"
The double "\n\n" stops the Textpad Reformat command from eliminating them. And, I can find this situation with a RE of the form \n\n[:lower:]

But, I can't figure out how to code the replace string.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Or, does anyone know where I can find a good set of examples for using REs on text files?

First of all, if you select all of the lines you want to reformat, and then right click over the selection, and *then* click reformat, the lines will be joined as you want.

Curious: Is this suggestion possible to implement with your interface? Are you totally blind, or severely impared? Do you use TextPad via a voice interpreter, or just view it with really really big fonts?

For a good starting site for TextPad REs, check out my site:

http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/docs/textpad/ ... n_faq.html


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Jeffy
http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/textpad

Bad url. Oops.

http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/code/textpad/ ... n_faq.html

Lee
Jeff's page is very helpful.

I think you meant:
\n\n[[:lower:]]
ie double brackets.
If you change the search string to
\n\n\([[:lower:]]\)
and make the replacement string
\1
(There's supposed to be a leading space on that line) it will do what you want