Re: [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not working in the find dialog box

In Linux that are a number of option using standard 
commands.
First would be sed
sed 's/ \[/\t/g;s/\]/\t /g' <fix-in

fix-in contains
test [ sjflsdkf] [ jflsjflsf ]

output is:
test     sjflsdkf                jflsjflsf 

or

sed 's/\] \[/\t/g;s/\[/\t/g;s/\]/\t/g' <fix-in
that would change ] [ to a single tab, and then single [ or 
] to \t.

Another option would be tr command.
tr ']' '\t' <fix-in | tr '[' '\t'

There are generally windows versions of both sed and tr, 
but would have to look.

Another option would be a simple cpp program to 
preprocess data.

If you send a real copy of data, could look at writing a 
program. Another user had a file that had 8884 lines of 
data for a month of data, and wrote a program to filter to 
one line for each day, with the max values for 24 fields.

Well good luck.


On 15 Aug 2022 at 16:04, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Date sent:              Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:04:44 +0900
To:                     users@global.libreoffice.org
From:                   Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp>
Subject:                [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not 
working in the find dialog box

> Good afternoon from Japan
> Actually, I have asked about this in 2018 and a number of things were 
> suggested.
> Unfortunately none did solve the problem.
> Problem:
> I have a long file with about 3,500 lines (each line = item) looking like:
> HKES     [] /(n) xxxxxx/
>
> where I would like to replace the "space[" and "]space" with tabs
> so that I can import the file into Calc.
>
> However, working with Japanese Windows 10, Japanese keyboard etc. 
> NOTHING I tried so far
> allowed me to enter a \t (=> THIS is supposed to be a backslash) as a 
> regular expression, telling
> the computer to replace the space[ with a tab.
>
> Question:
> Is there a trick telling the computer to replace any key sequence with a 
> tab?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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