In Linux that are a number of option using standard commands. First would be sed sed 's/ \[/\t/g;s/\]/\t /g' <fix-in
fix-in contains test [ sjflsdkf] [ jflsjflsf ] output is: test sjflsdkf jflsjflsf or sed 's/\] \[/\t/g;s/\[/\t/g;s/\]/\t/g' <fix-in that would change ] [ to a single tab, and then single [ or ] to \t. Another option would be tr command. tr ']' '\t' <fix-in | tr '[' '\t' There are generally windows versions of both sed and tr, but would have to look. Another option would be a simple cpp program to preprocess data. If you send a real copy of data, could look at writing a program. Another user had a file that had 8884 lines of data for a month of data, and wrote a program to filter to one line for each day, with the max values for 24 fields. Well good luck. On 15 Aug 2022 at 16:04, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:04:44 +0900 To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Thomas Blasejewicz <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> Subject: [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not working in the find dialog box > Good afternoon from Japan > Actually, I have asked about this in 2018 and a number of things were > suggested. > Unfortunately none did solve the problem. > Problem: > I have a long file with about 3,500 lines (each line = item) looking like: > HKES [] /(n) xxxxxx/ > > where I would like to replace the "space[" and "]space" with tabs > so that I can import the file into Calc. > > However, working with Japanese Windows 10, Japanese keyboard etc. > NOTHING I tried so far > allowed me to enter a \t (=> THIS is supposed to be a backslash) as a > regular expression, telling > the computer to replace the space[ with a tab. > > Question: > Is there a trick telling the computer to replace any key sequence with a > tab? > > Thank you. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
