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With this extension you can use regex expressions On 15/11/16 5:08 PM, Linda Hull wrote:
A while back, I asked some questions about opening a text file in Calc, as text, CSV. I solved the CSV part of it, but I was using notepad++ on Windows 7, to prepare the file. I'm still on Windows 7 and have Open Office 4.1.2. What I want to do is prepare the file using Open Office Writer, instead of notepad++. An example of the text is: USER: nIckmenza ACCESS: 250 L CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 days, 02:45:30 ago. LAST MODIFIED: pomol Sir^POMOL!digi...@pomol.users.undernet.org 4087 days, 09:31:38 ago USER: NaV1GaToR ACCESS: 250 CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 1572 days, 05:19:23 ago. LAST MODIFIED: pomol Sir^POMOL!digi...@sirpomol.net 5181 days, 12:13:11 ago USER: nite ACCESS: 100 CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 days, 22:15:01 ago. LAST MODIFIED: monalisa2 Moniq!asila...@monalisa2.users.undernet.org 20 days, 16:34:36 ago USER: okidoki ACCESS: 100 L CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 days, 17:27:17 ago. LAST MODIFIED: darxide dxd-!~d...@darxide.users.undernet.org 40 days, 07:29:15 ago USER: pomol ACCESS: 500 CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 days, 12:34:17 ago. LAST MODIFIED: bobskc BobsKC!bob...@bobskc.users.undernet.org 4240 days, 02:36:24 ago What I want to do is make all of the data about each individual user be on ONE line, so that it will open and appear all on a single line, in Calc. In notepad++ I would \r\nCHANNEL Find and Replace to CHANNEL, which would cause the CHANNEL lines to append themselves to the above line, and then \r\nLAST would do the other lines which begin with LAST (losing the MODIFIED and SEEN). How can I do the same thing in Writer, to make the data for each user in a single line? Like: USER: okidoki ACCESS: 100 L CHANNEL: #arlington AUTOMODE: OP LAST SEEN: 0 days, 17:27:17 ago. LAST MODIFIED: darxide dxd-!~ d...@darxide.users.undernet.org 40 days, 07:29:15 ago I wouldn't mind knowing how to elimiate the colon ":" after USER: AUTOMODE: SEEN: AND MODFIED: without eliminating the colons in all of the times? The obvious way is Find and Replace each one R: E: N: and D:, is there a more efficient way, maybe a regex for letters not numbers? Thanks so much for your help! Linda
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