"...replacing the spaces in the tab areas..." Should of added "to simulate
the text you describe."
On Monday, December 13, 2021 at 9:36:13 AM UTC-5 ThePorgie wrote:
> Pulling your text and replacing the spaces in the tab areas and then
> Running the following
> (?:[- (\.\d]+)?(\d{3})(?:[- )\.]+)?(\d{3})(?:[- )\.]+)?(\d{4})
> with a replacement of
> \1-\2-\3
> yields the following
> Name1 123-456-7890 Single Lifetime
> Name2 123-456-7890 Joint Lifetime
> Name3 123-456-7890 Joint Lifetime
> Name4 123-456-7890 Single
> Name5 123-456-7890 Single
> Name6 123-456-7890 Single
> Name7 123-456-7890 Joint
> Name8 123-456-7890 Joint
>
> Is that what your looking for?
>
> On Monday, December 13, 2021 at 8:41:06 AM UTC-5 Tim A wrote:
>
>> *Try using a negative character class like [^\d\n\r] *
>> That will do it! .. and as an extra benefit catches any periods used as a
>> delimiter as well.
>>
>> Deepening the challenge, the phone numbers are actually in the second of
>> three columns separated by tabs. If I can get the phone numbers stripped I
>> can then impose a uniform format on them. But how do I focus the
>> find/replace on just this second column? I can do this in many small steps,
>> but figure there must be an elegant way to do it in a single step.
>>
>> Before...
>>
>> Name1 1234567890 Single Lifetime
>> Name2 123-4567890 Joint Lifetime
>> Name3 123-456-7890 Joint Lifetime
>> Name4 (123)4567890 Single
>> Name5 (123) 4567890 Single
>> Name6 (123)-4567890 Single
>> Name7 (123)456-7890 Joint
>> Name8 123.456.7890 Joint
>>
>> After...
>> Name1 1234567890 SingleLifetime
>> Name2 1234567890 JointLifetime
>> Name3 1234567890 JointLifetime
>> Name4 1234567890 Single
>> Name5 1234567890 Single
>> Name6 1234567890 Single
>> Name7 1234567890 Joint
>> Name8 1234567890 Joint
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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