From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to insert a string every 2 characters
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:45:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150822144544.GA27850@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAtGUhWNy8J2cKOEjkdCq_3Q2YG3nLZUcCuxXn9aqiDszT-FsQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 02:37:39PM +0100, Angus Comber wrote:
> Hi
>
> If I have a string of characters like this:
>
> 0102030405
>
> I want to transform into:
>
> 01 02 03 04 05
>
> How do I do that?
The short answer: query-replace-regexp RET .. RET ..<SPACE>
(substitute the <SPACE> there by a real space, of course).
The long answer: do you have many strings like that? Just
one? How long are they? Do you have to do that very often?
regards
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-22 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-22 13:37 How to insert a string every 2 characters Angus Comber
2015-08-22 14:45 ` tomas [this message]
2015-08-22 14:58 ` Angus Comber
2015-08-22 17:03 ` tomas
2015-08-23 21:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-23 21:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-24 15:12 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-08-24 20:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-25 9:16 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-08-25 20:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-26 10:55 ` Nicolas Richard
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