Re: FN-FORUM: bulk character insert in text doc

date posted 18th January 2004 21:19

> In Word or Textpad?
>
> I have a list of words and I need to insert a character both at the
> beginning and at the end of each word. Is there a quick and easy
> way to do this I'm going bog eyed copying and pasting.

I undrestand that this a list of single words in one line.

1. Textpad

a. F8
b. check "regular expressions"
c. Find what: ^
d. Replace with:
e. hit "replace all"

g. Find what: $
h. Replace with:
i. hit "replace all"

2. easier solution is to do it in perl from command line (e.g.: cygwin)

$ perl -pi -e 's#^(.*?)$#$1#g'

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Gregory BRZESKI