How do you do find and replace all ~ characters in Notepad with a tab?

Question

How do you do find and replace all ~ characters in Notepad with a tab?

Answer 1

A simple ctrl H should suffice.

Answer 2

Yes, you can not type a "replace with" window directly.



The solutions is that you type a somewhere in notepad, and copy the to the clipboard, and use ctrl-v to paste it to "replace with" window.

Answer 3

Notepad Find And Replace

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

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RE:

How do you do find and replace all ~ characters in Notepad with a tab?

I have a text file that is delimited with the tilde character (~).

I need to replace the tilde delimiter with a tab delimiter so I can paste into Excel. The Find and replace function is the obvious solution, but how do you replace with a tab?

Answer 7

Within Notepad, press the tab key.

Then, select the tab by pressing SHIFT+BACK_ARROW (or select the single character with the mouse).

Then press CTRL+C to copy.

Then press CTRL+Z to undo the tab character you just typed.

Then press CTRL+H to search/replace.

Enter the tilde in the "Find" entry, and then tab (or mouse-click) to the "Replace with" field.

Press CTRL+V to paste the buffer into that field.

Click on "Replace All" (or of course search and replace each entry, if you have data fields that have the tilde in them).