Hey Snake, Doing ||| and replacing with --- worked at the first go for me... must've been something funky.
Searching with regular expressions will get folks basically the same functionality as the "search within tag" stuff... but it's a PITA when you are rusty with regex. ;-) On 9/9/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed an issue with search and replace recently. > > I had a CSV a file the contained data like this > > Something|something||something > > The || happen where are where fields that contained no data. > > Doing a search and replace on the | character did not pickup when there > were > more than one | next to each other, so if I had ||| I would have to run > the > search and replace 3 times. > > Russ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252682 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4