>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
Rich> I thought that I had saved the instructions for this from Rich> several years ago, but apparently I did not. Rich> I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all Rich> 3200 lines in a file. I know that I can do a regex search and Rich> replace for the beginning of each line, but the quotes I need to Rich> remove are in the interior. It seems to me that there is a way Rich> to block a vertical column and manipulate text within that Rich> marked block, but I no longer remember how to do this. Rich> Pointers or clues are appreciated. I am afraid I don't know. My fingers do, but I don't. And unfortunately, every time they try to tell you, they whack column-wise chunks out of this text as they try to demonstrate. So I made them stop. I'm sorry it didn't work out. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
