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At 12:09 PM 2/18/2009, vedit-macro-language Listmanager wrote:
>From: "John M. Joslin III"
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>I need to replace the first occurrence of a character in each line of the document. IE, replace ""|009"" in the line if it is the first thing in the line and then go to the next line. In this particular application, I want to replace the tab character "|009" with the appropriate number of characters but only if the tab character is in the first position on the line. The manual says that you can use "count,1" but I think this applies to the entire document not line by line.
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>Is it possible to specify the column position in the line, or whatever, in order to change the first occurrence only?
John:
There are several ways to do this:
* Perhaps the easiest is to search for: |<|009
* The Replace_Block() command could be used with the COLUMN or COLSET options, but that seems an overkill in this case.
Ted.
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