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lala
Level VIII

Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regex?

For example, this file is a txt file.TAB spacing:
Column 2 contains, column 2 contains
The maximum number of rows is 5
Can you use regular substitution to replace rows with less than 5 such symbols to complete the cell with a total of 5 similar symbols?
Make up as shown in the figure.

2024-10-15_12-01-34.png

Thanks Experts!

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lala
Level VIII

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

Of course, for ease of handling, the contents of column 1 can also be added according to this rule.

jthi
Super User

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

I'm not really sure what we are trying to implement here based on your text and example provided. Could you expand on it a bit?

-Jarmo
lala
Level VIII

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

A	B	C
00001	744811604804487748	1
00002	744811604411447740~744811607410407768	1▲1
00003	744811607000017746~744811607407400440~744811607611467718~744811600601460016	1▲1▲1▲1
00004	744811606810447747	1
00005	744811606400167710~744811606610607767~744811608807400040~744811401407170047	1▲1▲1▲1
00006	744811607006017776~744811606014617747~744811600606400074	1▲1▲1
00007	744811607114067714~744811607406147747~744811607704147760~744811607710174146~744811600014600011	1▲1▲1▲1▲1
00008	744811604810187746~744811606706407717~744811606607400107	1▲1▲1
00009	744811608814480014~744811608704464148~744811401101140018~744811401607480040~744811401714140017	1▲1▲1▲1▲1
00010	744811606607177767~744811606707470064~744811608610440011~711741608004176007~744811401606180041~744811401704470014	1▲1▲1▲1▲1▲1
00011	744811607401167716~744811607408417748~711047607710460644~744811607711077714	1▲1▲1▲1
00012	460144607710400044~744811607711077716~744811400601440046~744811401104410044	1▲1▲1▲1
00013	744811607814617747~410144608807046447~744811608110140017~744811400807170010	1▲1▲1▲1
00014	744811607807117717~744811607806117747~744811608610400060~744811608804087740~744811400806070014	1▲1▲1▲1▲1
  • This effect is achieved after a regular substitution:

  • Thanks Experts!

2024-10-15_17-44-25.png

jthi
Super User

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

Are we trying to add more ▲ to end of last column if there is less than five of them?

-Jarmo
lala
Level VIII

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

Yes, of course column 2 is treated by the same rules.

For convenience, you can first replace ~ with ▲

Thanks!

  • I want to do it in an alternate way, not in a tabular way.

txt="……";
tx=Substitute(txt,"~","▲");ccoyy

 

jthi
Super User

Re: Can implement this substitution with an operation with a regular?

Forcing yourself to use regex is in my opinion a bad idea. In this case you could for example loop line by line, replace ~ and triangles with "" on columns two and three, check how many were replaced and then add them to the end of correct "columns".

-Jarmo