At 13:20 07/02/2009 +0200, Andis Noname wrote:
In Latvian we are using 'comma' as standard decimal separator, but
when I have to prepare scientific publication, even in local
language, I usually have to change 'comma' to 'dot' in numbers and
it's quite time consuming operation.
At 15:43 07/02/2009 +0200, Andis Noname wrote:
I spent some time with regular expressions, but it seems I'm too
stupid for that.
I doubt you are stupid, but it may be that you happen not to know how
to solve this problem.
Do you have any suggestions, what I have to write in field 'Replace
with'. In the field 'Search for' I can write something like
[0123456789],[0123456789].
That's close. Try searching for
([0-9]),([0-9])
and replacing with
$1.$2
The [0-9] string represents a digit, but yes: you could use your
[0123456789] or [:digit:] instead. The two sets of (round)
parentheses define those substrings as references. This is so that
you can refer to each numeric part in the "Replace with" string as $1 and $2.
Note that this search will not find any numbers that start with the
fractional separator and do not have a leading zero - but you may
have been careful not to include any of those.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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