Re: TextPal: Can This Task Be Streamlined?
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:05:32 -0400 (EDT)
I'm glad TextPal is useful to you. I think the Section Break sequence of
characters is configurable in the Configuration Settings dialog.
Although I see why those are extra characters in the example you gave, I
find them to be useful as a way of seperating matches that could span
multiple lines. When I want to get rid of them, I usually do a regular
search and replace of 10 dash (-) characters with nothing, another of a
formfeed character (\f), and one that replaces multiple blank lines with a
single one (\n).
Let me also make sure you are aware that I have not been updating
TextPal further because EdSharp does virtually everything TextPal did
and more, and does so with better performance. It does require the .NET
Framework, though the installer will retrieve it for you if needed.
http://EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
Jamal
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008, John H. Luttenberger, III wrote:
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:18:07 -0400
> From: "John H. Luttenberger, III" <jlutt3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: TextPal: Can This Task Be Streamlined?
>
> Good morning, listers,
>
> I am running TextPal 3.9 (12/3/2007), and Windows XP Home SP2.
>
> I write to ask if a task I've performed with TextPal can be done in
> fewer, or even one, step/s.
>
> The task: I extracted all e-mail addresses from a membership
> directory and place them in a new file, one per line, for subsequent
> copying/pasting into my Eudora (e-mail program) address book.
>
> To do this, I performed the following steps ...
>
> 1. Used the Extract With Regular Expression command to create a new
> file containing the e-mail addresses. They were, as the documentation
> said they would be, separated from one another by the "Section
> Break" string (\n----------\n\f\n), defined in the Settings dialog box
> (Alt-S).
>
> To change these separators to a single "new line" character:
>
> 2. Copied the "Section Break" string from its settings field to the clipboard.
>
> 3. Invoked the Replace With Regular Expression command, pasted the
> "Section Break" string from the clipboard into the "From:" field,
> entered "\n" into the "Replace:" field, and hit the "OK" button.
>
> ... and the deed was done!
>
>
> My questions are ...
>
> Can this task be performed in fewer, or even one, step/s?
>
> Is there any way to have the Extract With Regular Expression command
> use a separator of my choosing on a one-time basis?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for increasing my TextPal knowledge with your responses.
>
> John Luttenberger
>
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