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Notepad++ assistance

Discussion in 'General Software' started by hello11112, Jul 24, 2013.

  1. hello11112

    hello11112

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    I have lines of data in one file that resemble something like this

    xxxxxxxxx:eek:oooooooo
    yyyyyyyyy:qqqqqqqqq
    zzzzzzzzz:aaaaaaaaa

    and then in another ones that look like this

    ooooooooo:123456
    qqqqqqqqq:234567
    aaaaaaaaa:345678

    Is there any way to combine the two and parse the texts together so that the text before the delimiter in the first situation xxxxxxxxx, can be joined with 123456. The problem is that they are not in the same order (being that if xxxxxxxxx:eek:oooooooo was first in the document, ooooooooo:123456 would not be first in the other document).

    If someone could assist me with this it would be a great help.
     
    hello11112, Jul 24, 2013
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  3. Plastic Nev

    Plastic Nev SUPER MODERATOR IN MEMORY

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    Hi and welcome to CHF.
    Where did the original script or text come from?
    Sometimes notepad cannot correctly decypher the code when the original script or document came from another program, as a for instance a file from Open Office, or text in an e mail as an example.

    Nev.
     
    Plastic Nev, Jul 25, 2013
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  4. Tony D

    Tony D Administrator Administrator

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    If you can get the data into a spreadsheet, like Microsoft's Excel, you may be able to write a formula to do what you want. You'd need to be know how to use Excel's functions. Look at the ones that fall under the 'Text' category.
     
    Tony D, Jul 25, 2013
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  5. BeeCeeBee

    BeeCeeBee ADMINISTRATOR IN MEMORY

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    I think everyone is assuming from the question tha you do not have any other word processing programs like MS Word. Shall we proceed under that assumption
     
    BeeCeeBee, Jul 25, 2013
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