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[Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhhhhhh!
I'm wearily back and getting snotty having to suffer this business...

So Fay wanted to do a Seach and Replace and presented me with a file.

Easy peasy sez I, Shift F4 stick in the search string, stick in the
replace with, in this case a newline "\n" (Sans quotes).

Pah! I had a number of goes but after wasting my time getting a number of,
errors", I took it to ZAP and did the job in 15 seconds.

But of course that doesn't help Fay...  :-(

Dave

So you wanna know what I was doing...

A bit of the file. (List of music tracks).

 "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/13 The
Birth Of The Blues.mp3" "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of
The Rat Pack/14 You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You.mp3"
"file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/15
Chicago.mp3" "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat
Pack/16 Sittin On Top Of The World.mp3" "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various
Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/17 Witchcraft.mp3"
"file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/18 Eee-O
Eleven.mp3" "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat
Pack/01 I'm Gonna Live Till I Die.mp3" "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various
Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/02 Ain't That A Kick In The Head.mp3"

Shift F4

Search dialogue... Copied and pasted in...

"file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/

Replace dialogue...
I tried manually entering \n  that failed as it literally removed the
search strings and actually replaced it with \n

Okay select the Advanced engine. Then selected \n from the display.
GO.

Failed with Missing "

There is NO missing " the search string only contains one "

Yes I'm aware the full file path and track name does contain the second "
after .mp3, but She only wants the "file:///D:/ZMusicRip/Various
Artists/The Best Of The Rat Pack/ replaced with a newline.

Anyway, tried a few other config twiddles, all failed to do the business
including one that errored with Unknown identifier file".

As noted above, by this time I was really dribbling snot, so dumped the
file in ZAP.

Search: Same string pasted in.
Replace: Typed in \n

Clicked Start and there it was...

13 The Birth Of The Blues.mp3" 
14 You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You.mp3" 
15 Chicago.mp3" 
16 Sittin On Top Of The World.mp3" 
17 Witchcraft.mp3" 
18 Eee-O Eleven.mp3" 
01 I'm Gonna Live Till I Die.mp3" 
02 Ain't That A Kick In The Head.mp3" 
03 To Close For Comfort.mp3" 
04 Me And My Shadow.mp3" 
05 (Love Is) The Tender Trap.mp3" 
06 Volare (Nel Blu, Dipinto Di Blu).mp3" 
07 Mr. Success.mp3" 
08 A Lot Of Livin To Do.mp3" 
09 You Make Me Feel So Young.mp3" 
10 Sam's Song.mp3" 
11 When Your Smiling.mp3" 
12 The Lady Is A Tramp.mp3" 

Selection > Process > Sort and the number are all in order.

Over to you folks?

Dave OHB  (On Her behalf)

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Dave Triffid