Utility: Super Online Text Editor

1. To see an example of how this web page works, try clicking the Sample text button and then the Replace all button above. After noting the result, try clicking Center for even more fun with text.

2. For a slight variation, try clicking the Sample text button again, but this time select a small portion of the text. Then click Replace all and Center again, noting the more localized effect.

3. Noting the contents of the text box each step of the way, try clicking Sample text, Add, Sample 1, Replace all, Sample 2, Replace all, Remove HTML and then Remove. Then select SingleSpace and click Go. Now you should be back to the sample text.

4. You might also want to try clicking Sample text, and then click a variety of other buttons to see what effect each of them has on the sample text.

5. To edit your own text, “Copy/Paste” it from a web page, an email message, a text editor, or a word processor into the text area above.

6. To save the edited text, use the Send button to send it to yourself as an email message or do a “Copy/Paste” to your text editor or word processor.

NOTE: Clicking the Top button will cause that particular button box to become the topmost box.

Before clicking Adjust word wrap, make sure that all paragraphs are separated by blank lines.

If the “Force max line length:” check box is not checked, then the Adjust word wrap button functions as an “Eliminate word wrap” button.

If the “Force max line length:” check box is checked, then the Adjust word wrap button functions as an “Add word wrap” button or as an “Adjust line length” button.

* The Conv. to reg. exp.* button converts an “ordinary text” search string into the required, “Regular Expression” search string. Simply manually enter or “copy/paste” the search string, including any special characters or characters, into the “Search String:” text box, and then click Conv. to reg. exp.*. (The converted search string replaces the unconverted string.)

TIP: can be used in the unconverted search string as a shortcut meaning “Anything can go here.”

The following are some examples of the very powerful Replace all function which utilizes the “Regular Expression” search/replacement strings:

EXAMPLE #1: Try clicking Sample text and then Replace all.

NOTE: If the “Replacement string” contains one or more substrings, then each of the substrings in the replacement string is replaced by the text which is represented by the first part of the search string which is enclosed in characters. All of the substrings in the replacement string are replaced by the text represented by the second part of the search string which is enclosed in characters, etc.

EXAMPLE #2: Suppose you want to delete all of the “>” characters which occur at the beginning of a line. Then the “Search string” would be either or , and the “Replacement string” would be . Search string: and Replacement string: would also work, but the first line would have to be edited manually.

EXAMPLE #3: Suppose you are editing a web page (HTML), and you want the number portion of every line that begins with a number to be in bold. Then the “Search string” would be , and the “Replacement string” would be .

The above can get quite confusing, so please be careful! If the result is not what you expected, then click the Undo button which is immediately to the left of the Bold button.

For more examples of search / replacement string syntax using Regular Expressions, see: http://llbest.com/?P=1t.

For complete documentation on Regular Expressions, see:

http://ashutoshsaxena.tripod.com/jstut/

quickstart/ch080.html.

To see an example of the uniquely powerful features of the “[ Add | Renumber | Remove ] line numbers.” functions, go to http://llbest.com/?P=57, click the Sample button, and then the Renum button, etc.)

Note: The purpose of the Reset button is to reset the function selector back to its default selection.

Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Charles Best ()