Category Archives: Regular Expressions

Quick Linux/regexp tips

To get info on your environment: env to do a case-insensitive searc for .pm files in /usr and subfolders: find /usr -iname ‘*.pm’ To get a terminal type xfce4-terminal in the Alt+F2 box To find a string of alpha characters … Continue reading

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Find and replace for fixed width text in Microsoft Word

If you have rows of fixed-width data (in this case the first 12 characters of each row) and you want to put a tab at the end, put this in your “Find what” box in Microsoft Word: (^13*{12}) and put … Continue reading

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Cool Find and Replace using regexp

So I saved an Excel file as a tab-separated text file. Then I wanted to add some html. The first column was all numbers followed by a tab and the second column. I opened the text file in Dreamweaver and … Continue reading

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