At 23:21 12/07/2007 -0400, Peter Abbott wrote:
I have a file of email addresses, one per line.
I thought that if I changed the file type to CSV and open it with scalc,
I could somehow filter out the ones with hotmail.com and msn.com, but I
haven't been able to configure the filter to do this.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
Is the original file a text document in Writer? It is probably
easiest to make the changes there. Were the original lines separated
by pressing Enter - in other words, are they actually separate
paragraphs in Writer terms? I assume so. And by "filter out" you
mean you want them deleted?
o Use Edit | Find & Replace... to open the Find & Replace dialogue box.
o Click on "More options" and put a tick by "Regular expressions".
o In the "Search for" box, enter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Here, the leading
dot means "any character" and the asterisk means "any number of
those", so the string matches anything followed by the
"@hotmail.com". Leave "Replace with" empty.)
o Replace All.
o Repeat with [EMAIL PROTECTED]
o To remove the blank lines, now search for ^$ and replace with
nothing. (^ means the start of a paragraph and $ the end, so ^$ is
an empty paragraph.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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