Questions tagged [ultraedit]

UltraEdit is a long-standing, popular code and text editor, with its own macro language, a powerful column-editing mode, custom environments, tag lists, and templates.

UltraEdit is a long-standing, popular code and text editor, with its own macro language, a powerful column-editing mode, custom environments, tag lists, and templates.

The editor has a powerful trans-file Regular Expression search and replace feature, a "projects" feature for grouping related files, and integration with third-party tools that you can add to the environment.

Version 17 brings enhanced file explorer views, tighter integration with the sister application UltraCompare, customized tabs, and search expression highlighting.

See http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit/ultraedit_features.html for a complete features list.

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Regular Expression for irregularly occurring repeating string

I searched but have not found an answer to the question - maybe it is so obvious that no one else had to ask... I am using UltraEdit 16.00 to run my Regular Expressions in PERL mode... Situation: I have a delimited string that can contain a variable…
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Perl Vs Ultraedit Scripting

I'm wondering if Perl is a good (easy to use and to learn) tool for this: I'd like to do some custom preprocessing on my C/C++ source code. Basically, this's to allow me to insert my own custom annotations to the source code and generate new codes…
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Is there a way to split a large text stream into 550 character sections?

I currently am working on a file that is 3,430,900 characters long all in one string. I need to break/split this text string into 550 character segments so there is one 550 segment per line. Each segment is fairly standard but unfortunately there…
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UltraEdit script using saveAs("^c")

I am using an Excel macro to call up UltraEdit in order to execute a script on some files. In the Excel macro I write the path that I want the new file to be saved in by the UltraEdit script. Up until this point all work and if I do a write of the…
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How to apply a filter on date fields in UltraEdit

I am trying to use the filter option in UltraEdit. I have a simple CSV file. It has 3 columns. The last column has dates. I need to apply a filter so that I see only those lines with dates older than, say,…
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Replace character in large txt file

I have a series of .txt files that I need to upload to Google Cloud in order to create some tables out of them in BigQuery. The files are tables whose separator is a ';'. For some reason it seems like BigQuery has issues at identifying columns…
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Remove CR from text file if subsequent line is shorter than X characters

I have a massive text/csv file with is 6 GB big. When it was created an error happened and some new line characters (CRLF) have not been removed from fields so certain lines are broken Here a simplified…
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remove line from xml with regex

I'm working on a huge xml file and don't want to use XML software because my xml file exported from PubMed website has incorrect structure that changes from time to time so I'd like to remove some nodes of xml in notepad++ or ultraedit with regex.…
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use ultraedit find and replace Perl regex to insert colon into 4 digit time string

I have multiple 24-hour time strings through several files. For example, 1234, which I wish to replace with 12:34. Finding them is easy, just \d\d\d\d, that I understand and it works. However, what replace string do I need. In other words, say…
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Is it possible to match a pattern using a regular expression across a newline in UltraEdit?

The UltraEdit text editor includes a Perl and Unix compatible regular expression engine for searching. I want to be able to match a string line this:
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Perl regex to match eof

How can I use the Perl regex search to find files ending in: -------\r\n In hex this is: 2D 2D 2D 2D 0D 0A (the end of the file) I'm in UltraEdit, which says it uses Boost Perl regex syntax. I've figured enough out to use: ----\x0d\x0a which…
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Any Suggestions for Ultra Edit Setup?

I was wondering if anyone uses Ultra Edit, I have just installed Version 16.30.0.1001. My question is, can Ultra Edit be set-up to complete tags and to suggest attributes kind of like how dream weaver does? Does anyone have any tips with Ultra…
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How do I pass parameters to an UltraEdit script from the command line?

Now an UltraEdit script is executed from the command line with: uedit64.exe /s="J:\SkyDrive\work\ue-script\newFile.js" Is it possible to pass parameters to UltraEdit script from command line? And how do I get them in the script? Maybe like…
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Visual studio 2015 making colour code

I have my own macro language that is not universal. Now I am using text editor UltraEdit to modify the language. It seems UltraEdit can understand the common syntax used in my language due to its similarity with other languages and it gives some…
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Clean out extra tags in HTML document converted from Word

I have large HTML document produced after Word to HTML conversion. HTML code contains vaste amount of extra tags. I want clean out extra tags with regular expression. I'm using UltraEdit editor (v11.20). I've tried some regular expression to find…
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