From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:16:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8d3wvwx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAtGUhWsLmOyjBBLb1PsBKh=1RLKZzWrpEa0gHqqEOveezxn9w@mail.gmail.com
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> I worked it out.
>
> m-%
>
> ^\(.*\) Ctrl-Q newline \(.*\)
>
> with
>
> \1 <tab> \2
>
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 11:23, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a text file of modem country codes like this:
>>
>> T.35 Code
>> Country
>> 00
>> Japan
>> 07
>> Argentina
>> 09
>> Australia
>> 0A
>> Austria
>>
>>
>> But I want to transform the buffer to look like this:
>> T.35 Code Country
>> 00 Japan
>> 07 Argentina
>> 09 Australia
>> 0A Austria
>>
>> What regex would do that?
FWIW, I usually do these things with keyboard macros. If the source data
is very regular, it can be much faster than finding the right regex. In
this case it would be very easy to record: end-of-line,
delete-next-character, insert-tab, next-line.
Eric
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-16 11:23 emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc Angus Comber
2019-02-16 11:51 ` Angus Comber
2019-02-16 16:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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