REQ: Regular Expressions in "Replace with" text field

Here's my feature request: with the "Replace" function of SuperEdi I would like to be able to use regular expressions not only in the "Find what" text field but also in the "Replace with" text field.

Now I need to copy the text from SuperEdi to OpenOffice.org Writer to be able to use regular expressions in the replacing text also.

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

Can you please give some examples of what you are trying to do? Thank you.

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

With a text editor I like to create web documents that can read even with the text-only browser lynx, and which are W3C compliant, and which can be easily copy-pasted without modification back to Google Groups if I want to quote my own text from the FAQs or from the news quotes pages:

http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/index.html
http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/groups_faq.html
http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/news_quotes_google.html

So I'm now copy-pasting my articles from my Google Groups postings, which are mostly posted to the google.public.support.general forum (most of them have been saved to text files, so I don't need to search for them one-by-one from the forum):

http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/topics

to HTML files as another archive to my own Google Page Creator web site. Maximum line length for Google Groups postings is about 71 characters:

http://groups.google.com/group/Groups-Test-Group/msg/ac5f60b14a055717

But just in case the Google Groups line length limit changes, I'm using 70 characters. I have used TED Notepad to make every line 70 characters long at maximum, but TED Notepad adds a space to the end of paragraphs, so the "70 character" lines become 71 character lines.

So, I needed to use OpenOffice.org to replace 2239 occurrences of space & break with tabs and then delete the tabs from the file (the file itself is not quite ready yet at the moment, but I thought you would like to see an example what I'm talking about -- the spaces at the end of paragraph lines have already been removed, so you can't see them):

http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/news_quotes_google_2006.html

By hand that would have been a bit tedious. :)

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

Thank you for the lenghy explanation. However, I still don't understand which regular expression you would like to apply.

However, I got the impression that you want to solve a quite complex, very specific problem. You may consider writing a SuperEdi script for this task and add it to the Tools/Scripts menu or to the Quickstart toolbar. Supported scriping languages include Perl, JScript and VBScript. Each of these languages supports regular expressions.

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

I can do this with SuperEdi: press Ctrl+h, press "Regular Expression" button, select "\r\n Line Break" for "Find what:" text field and add a space before the line break.

But if I put "\r\n" (without quotes) to the "Replace with:" text field, the space & break will be replaced with "\r\n" (without quotes) in the text when in fact I want to replace space & break with a break (to get rid of the extra space before the line break).

Thanks for suggesting writing a SuperEdi script. For some reason I thought you can only use ready-made scripts. Maybe you could advertise or hint some subtle way the possibility to create your own scripts in the "Tools," "Scripts" menu for those who don't read the manuals. :)

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

Just want to show an example which work in Textpad

Example 1

suppose there is one word/line in Editor and i want to distribute each character in new line

Nitin

The regular expression would be (using POSIX)

Find (.)
Replace \1\n

N
i
t
i
n

Example 2

There are several variables like

var abc
var abc1

I want to add some text after each line (using POSIX)

Find ^([^.]*)(.*)
Replace \1 = new Object()

Output

var abc = new Object()
var abc1 = new Object()

and a lot other uses of supporting regular expression in replace functionality.

Re: REQ: Regular Expressions in

Replacement Expressions
http://www.yadudigital.com/products/fk/regular_expressions_replace.htm