Doing a global search & replace in Notepad

[Bruce Hopkins]

[I’m running Windows 7, if that has any bearing on my problem.] I have a .txt database from 2007-8 of 3,000 to 4,000 email addresses. I’m trying to convert all of them from the email program I used to use (can’t remember its name) to a simple comma(,) to build a comma-delimited database. Here’s a sample of what I’m trying to do in Notepad:

“sharonking@yahoo.com|subscribed|2008/08/22||” ------> “sharonking,” (The quotation marks are not used in the conversion [and not her real addy].)

In 1/2 of the conversions, I successfully did THAT by using this Search & Replace formula:

REPLACE “|subscribed|2008/*” ------> WITH “,” and I would end up with “sharonking,” (Again, the quotation marks, and REPLACE/WITH are only here for YOUR benefit to help understand.)

The “global Search & Replace” worked marvelously. BUT, for the OTHER 1/2 (formatted the exact same way) it doesn’t work at all. I’m stuck having to manually change each entry.

Any ideas on how to re-automate the misbehaving half?? Would I need to import (if it can be done) into Wordpad, or some other program?

If this program tries to send the reply to my unused .Spamcop address, please manually send it to me at foodstr7 at gmail.com.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Bruce
http://www.internet-grocer.net

[Claudia Frank]

@Bruce-Hopkins
not sure how it did work at all.

I assume that the data is allways in the form

name@domainPIPE… (PIP is ofcourse | )

in such case I would use the following regex in find

\|.*$

and replace it with a comma.

Make sure regex has been selected.

Cheers
Claudia