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Heinrich Pesch  Identity Verified
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May 7, 2009

I have a big file with software strings. Each row begins with a 5-digit number, then comes a space, then a 3-digit number (the number of characters allowed in the string), then a second space and after that the actual text string:

15032 050 Text string

I would like to transfer these texts into Excel, so that I can count the string length and look, if any string is longer than allowed.

Now I cannot use the spaces as delimiters, because in the text-strings are also spaces. Or can I?

I managed already to replace the first space by a tab, but the second space is more complicated.

How would I write a formula that looks for a tab, followed by three numbers and a space and replaces this space by a tab?

Thanks for your ideas!

Heinrich

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Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT  Identity Verified
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In two rounds May 7, 2009

I would do the following:

To add a first tab after the first five digits:
- Look for "^p^#^#^#^#^# "
(Means: paragraph-mark digit digit digit digit digit space)

- Replace with "^&^t"
(Means: text found plus a tab mark). You will have a tab mark preceded by a space, but you surely know how to fix that.

Now for the second tab:
- Look for "^t^#^#^# "
(Means: tab-mark digit digit digit space)

- Replace with "^&^t"
(Means text found plus a tab mark). Also a space before tab mark here...

After these things, you can easily copy the table to Excel and you will have three columna. I hope this helps!

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Heinrich Pesch  Identity Verified
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Thansk, Thomás May 7, 2009

Probably the space should still be included in the search string. Otherwise it works fine.

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