| User: editor -- 2008-05-15 << 102 104 >> |
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| Type: Advanced search and replace |
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| Description: |
| How to add hard return for a text file, and limit each line to less than 40 characters, and don't break word? |
| Input Sample: |
| More than 4.3 million homes collapsed or sustained damage, according to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, and the official death toll from the quake had reached 14,866 by Wednesday evening. But casualty figures from various cities indicate a higher number of dead. |
| Output Sample: |
| More than 4.3 million homes collapsed or sustained damage, according to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, and the official death toll from the quake had reached 14,866 by Wednesday evening. But casualty figures from various cities indicate a higher number of dead. |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps. |
| 1. ctrl-o open source file 2. ctrl-h open 'replace' dialog, set 1) set 'Replace Unit' to Chars 2) set 'Replace Scope' to Line 3) set 'search for pattern': 4) set 'replace with pattern': 3. click 'Replace' Note: 1. step 1, 3) use 'regular expression', so need to uncheck 'enhanced regular expression'. 2. '.{2,40}( |$)' means 2 to 40 characters followed by a space or line end. 3. $match\n means add a '\n' for each matched text. |
| Download Script: scripts/103.rst.zip |
Screenshot 1: Replace_Window |
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| Keywords: |
| limit line length without break hard return hard enhanced regular expression line length break less length return regular expression line length returns line returns line length word replace return with space replace return with space add line break with less characters text file by line length |