Brian, Fantastic! This is what I needed! You are always so good!
Thank you! Linda On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 01:08 15/11/2016 -0500, Linda Hull wrote: > >> I[...] have Open Office 4.1.2. >> > > With a free product, there is rarely any reason to stick with older > versions. > > What I want to do is prepare the file using Open Office Writer, instead of >> notepad++. >> > > If you already have something that serves the purpose, why change? > > An example of the text is: >> USER: nIckmenza ACCESS: 250 L >> CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP >> LAST SEEN: 0 days, 02:45:30 ago. >> LAST MODIFIED: pomol Sir^POMOL!digi...@pomol.users.undernet.org 4087 >> days, 09:31:38 ago >> [etc.] >> >> What I want to do is make all of the data about each individual user be >> on ONE line, so that it will open and appear all on a single line, in Calc. >> [...] How can I do the same thing in Writer, to make the data for each user >> in a single line? Like: >> USER: okidoki ACCESS: 100 L CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 >> days, 17:27:17 ago. LAST MODIFIED: darxide dxd-!~dxd@darxide.users.undern >> et.org 40 days, 07:29:15 ago >> > > o Go to Edit | Find & Replace... (or Ctrl+F). > o Click More Options and tick "Regular expressions". > o Search for $ and Replace with a single space. > o Now search for USER: and replace with \n& . > > You might find it useful to replace with a semicolon instead of a space in > the first case. Then, when you use Paste Special... to paste the result > into your spreadsheet, you can tick Semicolon under "Separated by" in the > Text Import window in order to separate the text into different columns > across the rows. > > I wouldn't mind knowing how to eliminate the colon ":" after USER: >> AUTOMODE: SEEN: AND MODIFIED: without eliminating the colons in all of the >> times? The >> obvious way is Find and Replace each one R: E: N: and D:, is there a more >> efficient way, maybe a regex for letters not numbers? >> > > Yup. If the relevant colons are the only ones that appear after alphabetic > characters instead of digits, search for ([:alpha:]): and replace with $1 > (again with "Regular expressions" ticked). > > With your data in the spreadsheet, you may find Data | Text to Columns... > useful in reformatting it. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
