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Article #189151Re: Column oriented search and replace
From: Josh Mittleman
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 15:33
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 15:33
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In article <1991Apr16.204234.27753@amd.com>, dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff Dwork) writes: > I frequently have to work with files containing many columns of numbers. I > want to do things like "search for the string 103 beginning in column 25" or > "replace every 0 in column 17 with 1". Has anyone written things to do this? Check out the function operate-on-rectangle. You could write a fairly simple query-replace-on-rectangle by using this function, I think. =========================================================================== Josh Mittleman (mittle@watson.ibm.com or joshua@paul.rutgers.edu) J2-C28 T.J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,a08aab4ba3e56953 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-18 22:25:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bywater!arnor!watson!blinn.watson.ibm.com!mittle From: mittle@blinn.watson.ibm.com (Josh Mittleman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Column oriented search and replace Message-ID: <1991Apr18.153355.20222@watson.ibm.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 15:33:55 GMT References: <9104151304.AA12675@crdgw1.ge.com> <1991Apr16.204234.27753@amd.com> Sender: @watson.ibm.com Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Lines: 14