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(Tested using IE6, IE7, Firefox 2 and Firefox 3)
1. Try clicking the button above. Then try
clicking the other buttons to see what effect they have on the
sample text.
2. 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.
3. To save or print the edited text, do a
“Copy/Paste” to your text editor or word
processor.
NOTE: Clicking the button will cause that particular button box to become the topmost box.
NOTE: The only time that the “undo” data is saved
for the search and the replacement string text boxes is when is clicked. The
S&R “undo” data is stored in a “push-down stack.”
Therefore, none of it will be lost until this window is closed. This is a
very handy feature if you intend to apply multiple search/replace
operations to multiple bodies of text.
reverses
the effect of .
NOTE: The functions activated by the various buttons always act on all of the text in the text box. It makes no difference whether or not part of the text in the text box is highlighted. The highlighting is simply ignored.
Before clicking ,
make sure that all paragraphs are separated by blank lines or
are indented at least 2 spaces.
If the “Force max line length:” check
box is not checked, then the button functions as an
“Eliminate word wrap” button.
If the “Force max line length:” check
box is checked, then the button functions as an
“Add word wrap” button.
* The 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 . (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
function which utilizes the “Regular Expression”
search/replacement strings:
EXAMPLE #1: Try clicking and then
.
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 button
which is immediately to the left of the button.
For more examples of search / replacement string syntax using Regular Expressions, see http://LLBest.com/RegularExpressions.htm.
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/Renumber.htm, click the button, and then the button, etc.)
NOTE: This web page was created using Notepad. Except for the background image file, the keyboard command JavaScript file and the common JavaScript file, it is completely self contained, and the absence of these three files will not cause any problems. Please feel free to save it to your hard drive using “File/Save as….” Double-click on the newly created “LLBest - Utility - Super Text Editor” icon (“TextEditor” icon for Firefox), and make it one of your “Favorites.” It will work perfectly even when you are no longer connected to the Internet, or, heaven forbid, when this web page is no longer available!
Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Best ()
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