If \1 doesn't work for you, try \01.
On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 5:22:16 AM UTC-8, Thibaut Jacob wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> For inserting a space every 5 characters, you could do this through the
> Find Dialog. There is a little checkbox "Grep" on the bottom of the window
> which allows to use Regular expression in your search.
> The regular expression would be something like this: (.{5}), which means
> "capture every 5 characters". The brackets represent a capture group, the
> dot any character and {5} means that we want to match 5 times the pattern.
>
> In the replace field you can put : \1
> Make sure to put a space after \1. This means that we replace the 5
> captured characters by themselves with an additional trailing space.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by separate page though.
> Hope this helps somehow.
>
> Regards,
> Thibaut Jacob
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 1:13:04 PM UTC+1, Simon Allen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am anew to BBEdit. I want to insert add a space every 5 characters of
>> a text file and then group every 2000 characters as a separate page. Will
>> BBEit do this or I need other software.
>>
>>
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