Barry, when I wanted to replace two commas with one, I exported a Gedcom for Legacy, and put that through a text editor. Your case was different, in that you wanted to remove non-printing characters at the end of a line.
Doug. On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:58:37 +0800 "Barry Hardman" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have undertaken further testing as indicated below. > > > > From within Legacy Search and Replace, if we initially consider only > fields within Events, the following is indicated. > > 1. Enter Event-Description into the Find where: window. This > field is a text field named Description within tblER, therefore it is > possible to insert a space into the Find what: window, set How to > Find to either Starts with, or Ends with, press Search and the > instances will be located and from which correction can be made via > the Replacement text window. > > 2. Enter Event-Notes into the Find where: window. This field is > a memo field named Desc within tblER, as such the functions as > referred above will not work. > > > > So there we have it, Search and Replace within Legacy is a powerful > tool when utilised within a TEXT field, but less powerful within a > MEMO field. There are numerous memo fields so be aware, particularly > within tblIR referring notes for BMDB etc. Nevertheless, there are > also numerous text fields so have fun checking and correcting data > within these. > > > > Some other useful strings to enter to Find what window: > > 1. Space and full stop. > > 2. Space and comma. > > 3. Space and comma space. > > > > Other things to be aware: > > 1. When Picture-Description is entered to Find where: window, the > Search and Replace function ONLY works on those pictures that have > been Assigned with data residing within tlbBR. The Search and > Replace function does not work on the base picture data which is > located within tblPicList within Piclist.dbm. > > 2. Picture-Description within tblBR is a memo field named > PicDesc, therefore Search and Replace is limited as referred above. > > > > Barry > > > > > > From: Barry Hardman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2012 3:07 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Search and Replace spaces at end of last sentence/paragraph > > > > Whilst new to this user group, have been actively using Legacy for a > decade or so. Have published 5 books through Publishing Centre, with > seven more almost ready to go and also published 4 photo albums with > up to 2,000 photos in each. > > > > Looking to find a methodology whereby through Search and Replace it is > possible to locate one or more spaces (space bar) at the end of the > last sentence/paragraph within Event-Notes and Event-Description. > Obviously, the methodology, once resolved will work in any text field > within Search and Replace. > > > > Currently it is a matter of either viewing or running a report, note > where there is a gap between events and then manually navigating too > and deleting spaces. Currently our data is clean, but as we > teach/mentor other Legacy users, clean-up of their data can be time > consuming. > > > > Thanks, Barry > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
