is there a way to edit multiple lines of text in text wrangler

Question

I have opened a csv file in TextWrangler and need to add a few characters to the end of all of the cells. Is there a way to do this without having to copy/paste these characters on each line separately? Thanks!

Answer 1

If your csv file has this format:

Name,Address,Age
Mr. Foo,"123 Anywhere St, Billings, MN 12345",42
Miss Bar,"234 Somewhere Else Rd, Springfield, TX 98764",99

The easiest and fastest way to append text onto these lines would be to use the $ character. If you know that you will enter two more fields: Gender and Hobbies, and those fields are all the same (you don't need different values for each entry), you can simply replace lines 2..n with

Search:
$

Replace:
,Male,"Cats,Riding Bikes,Chasing cars"

You would need to provide more information in your question for more detailed help, though. The best is to give example input and what your desired results would look like.