* emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc
@ 2019-02-16 11:23 Angus Comber
2019-02-16 11:51 ` Angus Comber
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From: Angus Comber @ 2019-02-16 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?
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* Re: emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc
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
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From: Angus Comber @ 2019-02-16 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs Help
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?
>
>
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* Re: emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc
2019-02-16 11:51 ` Angus Comber
@ 2019-02-16 16:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2019-02-16 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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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