Re: [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not working in the find dialog box

Den mån 15 aug. 2022 kl 13:38 skrev Michael D. Setzer II <
msetzerii@gmail.com>:

> In Linux that are a number of option using standard
> commands.

I think he said he's on Windows, actually.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg


> First would be sed
> sed 's/ \[/\t/g;s/\]/\t /g' <fix-in
>
> fix-in contains
> test [ sjflsdkf] [ jflsjflsf ]
>
> output is:
> test     sjflsdkf                jflsjflsf
>
> or
>
> sed 's/\] \[/\t/g;s/\[/\t/g;s/\]/\t/g' <fix-in
> that would change ] [ to a single tab, and then single [ or
> ] to \t.
>
> Another option would be tr command.
> tr ']' '\t' <fix-in | tr '[' '\t'
>
> There are generally windows versions of both sed and tr,
> but would have to look.
>
> Another option would be a simple cpp program to
> preprocess data.
>
> If you send a real copy of data, could look at writing a
> program. Another user had a file that had 8884 lines of
> data for a month of data, and wrote a program to filter to
> one line for each day, with the max values for 24 fields.
>
> Well good luck.
>
>
> On 15 Aug 2022 at 16:04, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>
> Date sent:              Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:04:44 +0900
> To:                     users@global.libreoffice.org
> From:                   Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp>
> Subject:                [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not
> working in the find dialog box
>
> > Good afternoon from Japan
> > Actually, I have asked about this in 2018 and a number of things were
> > suggested.
> > Unfortunately none did solve the problem.
> > Problem:
> > I have a long file with about 3,500 lines (each line = item) looking
> like:
> > HKES     [] /(n) xxxxxx/
> >
> > where I would like to replace the "space[" and "]space" with tabs
> > so that I can import the file into Calc.
> >
> > However, working with Japanese Windows 10, Japanese keyboard etc.
> > NOTHING I tried so far
> > allowed me to enter a \t (=> THIS is supposed to be a backslash) as a
> > regular expression, telling
> > the computer to replace the space[ with a tab.
> >
> > Question:
> > Is there a trick telling the computer to replace any key sequence with a
> > tab?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
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