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It is possible to add numbers from 0-99 at the end of all line?
Hello i got something in format:
Marcin:Marcin
Pawel:Pawel
i want to add numbers between 0-99 at the end of line so result should be like:
Marcin:Marcin1
Marcin:Marcin2
..
Marcin:Marcin99
Pawel:Pawel1
Pawel:Pawel45
..
Pawel:Pawel99
etc.
Does…

Marcin Tomczak
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Regex : Keep text between 2 keywords but only if another keyword exists inside them
I am using emeditor and I am trying to isolate about 2 millions articles containing keyword3 from a french wikipedia dump .xml file (20GB, 338 millions rows, 4.8 millions articles in total).
I would like to keep the text contained between 2 keywords…

edmisnu
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Convert first lowercase to uppercase and uppercase to lowercase (regex?)
I have a huge file in this layout:
world12345:Betaalpha
world12344:alphabeta
world12343:ZetaBeta
world12342:!betatheta
I need to convert the first lowercase letter after the ":" to uppercase and the first uppercase letter to lowercase.…

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Remove/change red underline in columns
EmEditor CSV mode shows a red underline to fill the remainder of a column when a cell's text is not wide enough. Does anyone know how to either remove or change this?Example of red underline buffering

John Hinchy
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In EmEditor: How to sum up values from two column's cell (in the same row) and store the results in third column?
I have a pipe separated file:
Col1| Col2| Col3
12 | 10 |
54 | 17 |
How I can get in the sum ( 22 & 71 ) in the Col3 ?
Is there a build-in Function for this kind of operation ?

XPB
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how to remove some strings in emeditor(Regex )
i want to remove some string and save other part of string that i need from a file with emeditor ..
file line like :…

justine
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EmEditor Macro to Save Large Files from 0 to 100000
Trying to set up a macro for EmEditor to execute the following steps that I could otherwise do manually.
open file
view > large file controller
set To=1000
Click Apply
Click Save Opened Portion As...
Enter TestMacro and Save
I'm using: EmEditor…

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Em editor phone number formatting
I have phone number/number look like this
xxxxxxxxxx
I want to turn it to this formatting on em editor xxx-xxx-xxxx
Basically 3 digit -3 digit -4 digit like an USA phone number.
How can I do it?
Formatting phone number
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How to sort emails data using its color codes in emeditor
I have this little challenge.
I want to ask, how do i sort the emails using the color code (light green) as stated in this picture here
I have tried to remove the non emails by scrolling through, but i need a solution that can make it a one click…
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How to call external JS library using \J syntax
I'm trying to encrypt one column of my very big CSV file.
So I'm using JavaScript as the expression on the "Find and Replace" dialog of EmEditor:
https://www.emeditor.org/en/howto_search_replacement_expression_syntax.html
I've correctly identified…

J. Mag
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Is it possible to specify the beginning and end points of the file to be opened before opening?
Is it possible to specify the beginning and end points of the file to be opened before opening? For example, if I have a file of size 1234567890 bytes and I want to open it from 2345777 to 2345888, how do I set these values before opening it, so…

lyrically wicked
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In EmEditor, how to normalize multiple consecutive whitespaces to 1 in multi-column file
When I search for \s\s+ to replace with “ “, lines in column 1 and 2 get concatenated, unless text line in column 1 ends in punctuation mark. Please provide expression to normalize whitespaces w/o losing multi-column data structure.

Georg Kirchner
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EmEditor Filtering and Searching Column Separator / Filtering and Inserting a Separator into Multiple Rows of CSV
I have a table 20 columns wide and millions of rows long.
The information is public and voluntarily made public and disseminated publicly. I am an attorney, and I do not believe there can be any real concern about showing this data.
In this…

Nicholas Yocca
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How To Get The Number Of Days Between Two Dates In Emeditor
In Emeditor, how do i get the number of days between 2 date columns? Example:
Column A: 25/11/2022
Column B: 29/11/2022
-> Column C: 4 days

Ayemoighe Omu
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Emeditor: run a macro for all file inside a folder?
How to run a (previously recorded) macro for all files inside a folder ?
Example : I have recorded a macro that is working correctly for an opened html file. I have saved the macro as "test.jsee".
I have a folder in my computer named…

edmisnu
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