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Re: [StrongED] Regular Search and Replace on a key?

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Subject: Re: [StrongED] Regular Search and Replace on a key?
From: Gavin Wraith <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:46:43 GMT
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In message <50e1531249barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:

> I regularly wish to turn a 'TAB' separated document into a Comma
> Separated Value document. I do this by searching for a TAB (/t) and
> replacing with a comma (",").
>
> Is it possible to put this search and replace on a key?

Do you want to do this to TABs occurring inside strings as well?
If yes, OK. Otherwise you have a bit more than a straight
search-and-replace on your hands.
CSV and TSV are notoriously tricky formats to get completely
right. I can whip you up a parser expression grammar script for
StrongED that will do the right thing, but I doubt whether I could
do it with StrongED's built in operations.

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