[Tutor] Search and replace
Paul Hartley
p.hartley@spitech.com
Tue Jan 14 20:16:02 2003
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I have some text that contains semicolons surounded by spaces, for =
example :-
123 ;345 ; 456; 55 ; ; ;123 abc
And I want to remove those spaces, but not other spaces, so the above =
line would be :-
123;345;456;55;;;123 abc
I know there must be a simple way using re - I have done this but used =
two while loops until all the spaces are gone, not very elegant.
Another question, the text is in another application, my current =
solution is to copy it to the clipboard, save in a file and then =
convert. Is there a better way?
Paul
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