Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:12 11/07/2010 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I have a list of names, addresses and telephone numbers which I
copy/pasted from a web page into Writer as unformatted text (Paste
Special). Each "entry" (name, address, telephone number) consists of
3 *paragraphs* - one for name, one for address and one for telephone
number. Each entry is separated from the next by a blank paragraph.
I'd like each entry as a single paragraph thus:
name<tab>address<tab>telephone number where "<tab>", of course, is a
tab character.
There are rather a lot of entries. How, please?
o Replace ^.*$ with &\t
o Replace $ with nothing
o Replace \t$ with nothing
(You won't need telling to tick "Regular expressions" or to use
Replace All.)
It's not clear from your enquiry whether you want to keep the empty
paragraphs. If so, finally replace $ with \n\n
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Thank you; I didn't realise that replacing $ with nothing joins lines so
I never tried it :-(
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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