On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >> I sometimes use a regex in notepad++ if I have a huge text file (or a >> lot of them) that need transformed in some way. Usually evil CSVs or >> XMLs that are not quite right. If it's more than a one off I'd write >> a program though. > > I really would like for the Notepad++ regex to support '|'. This is > about the only complaint I have about Notepad++... > I also use Notepad++ now and I like it. Its column edit mode is not that good though. On the other hand, our firmware engineers all use Source Insight and consider Notepad++ a toy for hardware engineers like me. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .