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Fixed length data

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:49 pm
by Michael Cook
I have a fixed length data file with 1,442 records and no carriage returns because length determines where a new record starts.

Is there any way to get TextPad to insert a carriage return every 100 characters?

Re: Fixed length data

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 5:50 am
by Andreas
Replace

.\{100,100\}

by

&\n

(make sure, Regex is ON)
(this assumes non-POSIX Syntax for Regex, if you have POSIX syntax configured don't use the backslashes with the {}

Re: Fixed length data

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 12:05 pm
by Michael Cook
It worked!
Thank you very much for the quick and correct response.

Actually, it turned out that the record length is 150.
So I replaced "100" with "150" and it worked.