On 3/21/06 at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Bergman) wrote:
>Sorry, pad with spaces, not zeros.
>
>On Mar 21, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Eric Bergman wrote:
>>Is there a simple way in BBEdit to convert a file with variable-
>>length lines (and a hard return on each one) so that all lines
>>have a specific length? In other words, I want to pad lines out to
>>some column with zeros.
One way to do this would be with a text factory using grep. The first step
would be to match (.+) and replace with \1 followed by a sufficient number of
spaces to ensure each line is at least as long as you want. Then search for
(.{n}).+ where n is the desired line length and replace with \1.
Strictly speaking, a text factory isn't necessary. But if you will be using
this more than once on more than one file, a text factory offers a simple way
to automatically apply this change to multiple files.
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