The Replace Characters tool can be used to:
- Arrange the placement of prefixes
User-defined 'prefixes' can be positioned:
- At the start of a line
- Before a parentheses-enclosed date
- After a parentheses-enclosed date
Example
Using the four line example file below, when the user-defined prefix list contains
The, Der, L' and Les and
the user specifies that the prefixes are to be positioned before parentheses:
Armée des Ombres (1969), L'
Les Bas-Fonds (1936)
The Third Man (1949)
Untergang (2004), Der
the Arrange tool will write a new file containing:
Armée des Ombres, L' (1969)
Bas-Fonds, Les (1936)
Third Man, The (1949)
Untergang, Der (2004)
- Replace characters
Characters that have an ASCII value greater than 127 can be replaced with the character's:
- Decimal numeric entity.
- Hexadecimal numeric entity.
Example
If an input file contains the following lines:
and the Replace, All, Chars, Dec,
HTML options are chosen, the output file will contain:
Note
When the All control is selected, all of the characters that have an ASCII value greater than 127
will be replaced, not only those that are visibly selected.
- Recode numeric entities
Numeric entities can be recoded from:
- Decimal to hexadecimal.
- Hexadecimal to decimal.
Example
If an input file contains the following lines:
and the Replace, Entities, Hex,
Text options are chosen, the output file will contain:
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