| User: editor -- 2008-07-02 << 208 210 >> |
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| Type: Advanced search and replace |
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| Description: |
| How to reorganize following ":" delimited data into columns? |
| Input Sample: |
| name:bill gates age:55 gender:male address:street 123 name:... age:... |
| Output Sample: |
| name|age|gender|address bill gates|55|male|street 123 ... |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps. |
| 1. ctrl-o open your source file. 2. ctrl-h open 'Replace' dialog in 'Replace' page: * set 'Replace Unit' to paragraph * set 'Search for pattern' to: * set 'Replace with pattern' to: click 'Advanced' page: * set 'insert begin text' to: click 'Settings' page: * select 'Para start' to 'other', and set to at right. * select 'Para end' to 'None' 3. click 'Replace'. Finish. Note: above operation is to seperate data by paragraphs, the start line of paragraph is indicated by "name:" field. For each paragraph, take the 2,4,6,8 words and paste them side by side(The delimiter of words is not space, but the ':' or 'line break'): word1(name):word2 word3(age):word4 word5(gender):word6 word7(address):word8 will changed to word2|word4|word6|word8 |
| Download Script: scripts/209.rst.zip |
Screenshot 1: Replace_Window |
Screenshot 2: Replace_Advanced_Window |