Re: Notepad new line character

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On 9/13/2007, Gene E. Bloch posted this:
On 9/13/2007, Gene E. Bloch posted this:
On 9/13/2007, Jake posted this:
I have a text file that includes many records of information. In the file there is a "~" which separates the records. I would like to insert a character instead of the "~" which would make Notepad put the information after that on a new line, to clean up the data. Is this possible?

Thanks

Not easily in NotePad or WordPad.

Easily in NoteTab, http://www.notetab.com

The price is right if you download NoteTab Light :-)

You would run a replace-all command, replacing ~ by \r\n -- but be sure to check the "regular expression" box.

"\" is a prefix to indicate regular expression codes and special characters. "\r" is a carriage return and "\n" is a line-feed; the pair forms a windows newline.

It's in the help file, but (I think) hard to find.

NoteTab isn't the only editor that is free and can do the above, it's just the one I use most often and remember the name of ;-)

BTW, this is the wrong newsgroup for this question. It should be in a general Windows newsgroup or a text-editing group.

A couple of other free editors:

EditPad Lite is available at http://www.editpadpro.com

NotePad++ is available at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

All three are vaguely similar, but you might like one better than the others.

Some people like an editor called Jarte. I don't, and anyway, AFAICT it doesn't do regular expressions, in which case it wouldn't solve your problem.

Good thing I keep answering myself, otherwise this thread would be reasonably short ;-)

I looked at those two editors above and discovered that EditPad Lite won't do regular expressions. Help says it is available in the Pro version (which is not free).

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