Split line in text file

Yasser Khalil

Hello everyone

I have a text file with some lines and I need a way to split each line to two words
Example:
This is just a sample text for example

This would be:
This is
just a
sample text
for example

Thanks advanced for help

Yasser Khalil

After some searches I can split each word in line in that way using
Ctrl + H >> Checking “Regular expression” >> In find box I typed " \s*" and in replace box I typed " \n" then clicked “Replace All”

Scott Sumner

@Yasser-Khalil

Here’s a simplistic approach that meets your original goal:

Find-what zone: (\w+\s+\w+)\s+
Replace-with zone: \1\r\n

guy038

Hi, @yasser-khalil, @Scott-sumner and All,

Scott, your regex works fine, as long as the text is located on a single line. But if text is, for instance, multi-lines :

This
 is 
    just
a 
  sample
          text 
for
     example

or, even, in a classic displaying, but, let’s say, every three words per line, as below :

This is just
a sample text
for example

It does not act, as expected :-((

So, I propose this very similar S/R :

SEARCH (\w+)\s+(\w+)\s*

REPLACE \1\x20\2\r\n

Which should works, as long as the list of all the individual words wanted, is a unique block of text, only separated by horizontal / vertical space characters !

A second advantage about setting each word of the couple, as groups \1 and \2, is that you may separate them by any character / string. For instance, the characters -, +, |…, the string <--->… :-)

Important : Yasser, in your second post, you said :

and in replace box I typed " \n"

So I presume that you’re using Unix files. In that case, change the sequence \r\n, at the end of the replace regex, by the simple Line Feed character \n

Cheers,

guy038

V S Rawat

try plugin TEXTFX, you will find many easy methods for such manipulations.