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Farmer · Guest

Can someone help me with this please?

I have a lot of documents I need to edit, I already figured out alot of what I need to do using ahk but not this one, all I need is to replace spaces among numbers with dots, and make the first word that comes after this sign - start with a capital letter, example:

From this:
Nathaniel Branden 09 04 1930 - the first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

To this:
Nathaniel Branden 09.04.1930 - The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

Hope someone can help

dmatch · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 252

Try something like this:

jaco0646 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 3113 Location: MN, USA

Guest · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: Dots among numbers

I love RegEx...

Farmer · Guest

Thanks guys, but its not working like I want Sad

, I want to highlight the text and use a hotkey to do the rest, this is what I tried but no luck? Any idea?

closed · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 509

Can you elaborate what is not working?

I just tried it and it seems to work.My first try was in PSPad but there the F1 did not function ( greedily used by PSPad) but in a sticky note it worked.

This is what was entered:

Farmer · Guest

Well, I want it to work on whatever I have on my clipboard and not to whats between
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I tried modifying it as in my last post, no luck Sad

closed · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 509

I am sorry but i can still not see where it goes wrong.Can you give some example of something put on your clipboard that does not work?

Does the program only works with the example given here in your first post?

I can see it only works if the date is always the same format.Or does it change parts that must not be changed in some texts?

Farmer · Guest

Ohhh, so it was made to work with that example only? Confused

I just gave that as an example, if you read my first post then you will see, I even said "I have a lot of documents.."

I have something like 2000 pages to go through, and that's why I want it to work on whatever I have in clipboard.

Ideas Question

sinkfaze · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:03 am Post subject:

Here's another regex you can try:

Farmer · Guest

I'm almost crying Sad

I really appreciate you trying to help, but it seems I made a mistake by giving that example in the first place.
I just want it to work on clipboard and NOT that specific example Confused

Please can someone make it work on clipboard content?
As I said, I have to go through 2000 pages of text, so I need to highlight the text I need to edit, and a hotkey will do the rest

SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 4999

Just replace var with clipboard

Farmer · Guest

Guys, this will only work on that example I gave and it wont work on anything else, it wont even work on the same example if I add few numbers to it, so the guys who posted here misunderstood. And I don't know RegEx so I can't edit it to work on different content of the clipboard.

I tried this code on the example I gave and it works, I tried it on other lines and it wont, so please someone test it and help me

This iis the script:

SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 4999

This example the code works so something is different with your clipboard data not with the script

Farmer · Guest

I just tried it and it wont work on the following line:

this is a test - file 3 3 3 77 6 54 4 5 6 7, please - help me

So I don't know what I'm doing wrong

Is it possible to split the two functions? So one will look for numbers and replace spaces among them with dots, and another function will make the word that comes after - start with a capital letter