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



On 29 Jan 2010, Barry E Allen <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 (",").

But, in general, that will not work if one or more of the data fields
already contains a comma. It would be safer to replace each tab with ","
(ie three characters), then add " to the start, and end, of each line.

Tony




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