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    • Pedro ContrerasP
      Pedro Contreras
      last edited by Pedro Contreras

      Hello, I have come to ask for your help, I have a list of 50,000 lines and I would like to obtain only the following data, for example

      (2X0997,‘navx8n’,‘nap345’,‘’,‘’,‘Nava’,‘A’,‘firstname@yahoo.com’,‘no 2Z,n street,saras ng,selaiyur’,‘’,‘chennai’,'TN ',‘IN’,‘0000X3’,‘0000-00-00’)

      to

      nap345 firstname@yahoo.com

      Of this I only need the third and the mail in all the lines
      It could be on notepad, I thank you very much, thank you very much

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Pedro Contreras
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        @Pedro-Contreras ,

        Assuming your post converted ASCII quotes to smartquotes because you didn’t use the </> button in the forum, then an answer that works for the data you presented is to use regular expression mode with FIND = (?-s)^([^,\r\n]*?,){2}'([^,\r\n]*?)',(?1){4}'([^,\r\n]*?)',.*$ and REPLACE = $2 $3

        (2X0997,'navx8n','nap345','','','Nava','A','firstname@yahoo.com','no 2Z,n street,saras ng,selaiyur','','chennai','TN ','IN','0000X3','0000-00-00')
        

        becomes

        nap345 firstname@yahoo.com
        

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