From: woodyee Date: 2007-11-29T01:30:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Deleting Text From a File On Nov 28, 9:44 am, Alex Young wrote: > woodyee wrote: > > Hi! I had to manually remove decimals and tildes from a text file. How > > could I have done this via programming? I googled this but didn't > > really find anything, just stuff on removing spaces. Basically, I'd > > like to be able to search a file and remove certain items (ex - all > > decimals and tildes). Thanks! > > Sounds like a job for regular expressions. Have you got a short before > and after example? > > -- > Alex Sure. See below. Basically, the entire document was like this. To me, Reg Exp's were the key but they're a weakness of mine so I was lost. :-) Original --------- 89.00~~~~ 6330.00~15~CAT1~0005~1.00 Modified ---------- 89 6330 15 CAT1 0005 1