The following documents should take you two or three hours to read through. After that, it will not be necessary for you to ask us every time you need a simple regexp solution to parsing a simple text file.

If after that you still need additional info you can look at the following:

Ok, that's going to be another four or five hours of reading. But you want to learn this stuff right? Eight hours of free documentation to read and you'll avoid having to ask when your specification changes to want to replace a space followed by a newline with a comma and an asterisk. My point is that each of the questions you've asked may indeed be different questions. But it's like asking, "Now what if I want the elevator to go to the third floor, what do I do then?" And then a day later, "But what if I want it to go to the fourth floor? How would I do that?" And then... "Ok, here's a good one for you. What if I want the elevator to go to the fifth floor?" You can do better than that, I'm confident.


Dave

In reply to Re: Replace only tab space with commas by davido
in thread Replace only tab space with commas by sufi

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