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TextPad is a general-purpose text editor.

TextPad is a general-purpose text editor for Microsoft Windows, published by Helios Software Solutions.

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Regular expression to search multiple strings (Textpad)

I'm a bit new to regex and am looking to search for multiple lines/instaces of some wildcard strings such as *8768, *9875, *2353. I would like to pull all instances of these (within one file) rather than searching them individually. Any help is…
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TextPad and Unicode: full support?

I've got some UTF-8 files created in Mac, and when trying to open them using TextPad in Windows, I get the following warning: WARNING: (file name) contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI Latin 1). They will be converted to…
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find and replace end of line with "\n" verbatim

I am hoping to use some text editor to find all the "end of lines" in a document and replace them with just the written sequence "\n" (for ease of conversion into another file type). I've been trying with both Notepad++ and textpad with little luck.…
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Carriage Return showing in notepad++ but not textpad?

I have some text files copied out to a server. I typically use and prefer notepad++ to look at text files but on this server, only textpad is installed. This is really strange behavior but I noticed that when I view the EOL chars in notepad++ I…
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multiline regular expression with textpad

I can't figure out how to make textpad perform a regular expression that extends multiple lines. I tried using perl syntax with /myregex/m with m as a modifier but that didnt' work. I can't see a checkbox or anything in the editor to tell it to do…
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Regex for white space and then line end

I am struggling to find this - I need to strip all empty lines which might have white space before them The alternative is messing about in Excel - I am using TextPad
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WARNING: Line split at 64 KB in

Using Textpad this error appears when searching files that have very long lines. It pollutes the tool output window with these messages, hiding relevant search results. How can I turn this off please?
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How do I replace all of the text between two phrases with regular expressions in either Notepad++ or Textpad?

I have about 50 html documents and I need to replace the text between with From what I've read, Notepad++ does not support multiple line regular expressions but I thought I might…
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conditional remove with variable string regex

I have searched across a number of Q&As and can't find a solution specific enough to help. I have a large xml file and need to do a conditional 'remove' in one field depending on the value in another field. For…
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C++ Same program: two different results. Maybe due to operator >>?

I need your opinion of what is going wrong. From home I wrote a program using Bloodsheed and got the wanted result. The purpose of the programm is to display lines from a source file to output a text with a certain width. The source file can not be…
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How to create Shortcut to open a specific file only in Notepad++ v 7.8.2

I started maintaining work notes in a text document, pre Evernote/OneNote days, say in a file named worknotes.txt. I add code, tips, tricks, queries, urls etc to this file with some comments. I have been using TextPad where I created a shortcut to…
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how to save settings in textpad to show line number?

after spending over one hr on this, I gave up. I open a text file. make it show line numbers (view->Line number). Now I want to tell textpad to save this setting so that I do not have to do this each time I open a text file again. Yet, I am not able…
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Can I autosave open unsaved files in TextPad

I have a habit of opening a lot of text windows in TextPad, say about 20, or more, all unsaved. Several days later I go through them and save the ones I need/want. This works fine, except when my computer crashes ... and it crashes when I play…
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Regex pattern search in TextPad fails, works in Visual Studio

I'm trying to use TextPad to search for a regular expression in several files. I have a simple pattern but it doesn't work in TextPad. It works fine in Visual Studio. Anyone have any ideas? I'm searching for: hosted.mysite.com or…
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TextPad: how do I stop the beep on Auto Reload

Folks, I love TextPad and have been using it for a long time. There is one feature that I wish I could stop TextPad from doing. Does anyone knows how I can stop TextPad from sounding a BEEP everytime it updates a file, when the File Setting is…
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