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Replace special characters and numbers from columns Notepad++
I need to find/replace all special characters and numbers from 2 columns in Notepad++ with a space. Is there a way to list several special characters and numbers in the "find what" bar? ...
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Replace special chararcters in a 60MB file
I have a big text file. 200,000 lines. 60MB.
I would like to replace :
& -> &
Ë -> Ë
Ê -> Ê
etc...
Any simple idea please ? (Textpad or Notepad++?)
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Why is this search not working in MS Word 2016?
I have a large document (1000 pages) and I need to replace every « at the beginning of a word with a » (ALT+0187).
When I want to search a document for the character W at the beginning of a word, I ...
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Replace string with proper tab character in Notepad++
I have a string like this:
"001234","123","","Automated Letters""\t""Arrears Advice","\\PATH\FILE.doc"
Instead of Automated Letters""\t""Arrears Advice I need Automated Letters Arrears Advice
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Delete "unidentified" carriage-return char from a text file
I have a text file containing a strange "carriage return" char.
If I open the file with Notepad I can't see the new line.
If I open the file with Wordpad I can see the new line.
I uploaded an ...
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Using sed to replace string with special characters in XML file
I am having difficulty getting sed to replace a string of text in an XML file, despite the fact that I have no trouble using grep to find that same string. Since the new string and old string to be ...
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How to replace special characters (curly quotes, dashes, ellipses) in OS X?
Pretty simple: I need a way to convert special characters like curly quotes, ellipses, etc to their "plain text" version, i.e. … to ..., “ to ".
This is on OS X, meaning I can't use a macro in ...
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