Thanks!
On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 7:01:21 PM UTC+2, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
>
> On 8/13/18 at 11:27 AM, jerry@gmail.com (Jerry Nilson)
> wrote:
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> >Cannot figure out (new to this) how to write a grep search to match:
> >
> >
> >Where I want to substitute all similar lines with:
> >
On 8/13/18 at 11:27 AM, jerry.nil...@gmail.com (Jerry Nilson) wrote:
Cannot figure out (new to this) how to write a grep search to match:
Where I want to substitute all similar lines with:
Thought I could write:
.*
or possibly with a ? after, but seems I may need more escape
characters
You are right! I bloody well tried exactly that too, but maybe I had not
selected the whole row when applying to "selected text" only (as I did not
see the full row on my computer ...). Now it of course worked right away!
Tried to fix a kmz file exported from a Google map, that mishandles the
`.*?` worked for me with your sample line.
-sam
On 13 Aug 2018, at 11:27, Jerry Nilson wrote:
Hi,
Cannot figure out (new to this) how to write a grep search to match:
Where I want to substitute all similar lines with:
Thought I could write:
.*
or possibly with a ?
Hi,
Cannot figure out (new to this) how to write a grep search to match:
Where I want to substitute all similar lines with:
Thought I could write:
.*
or possibly with a ? after, but seems I may need more escape characters
here because some of the characters to be