Friday, November 21, 2014

How to replace all tab and newline characters in a Google Docs Spreadsheet

I've gotten a spreadsheet that is riddled with tab characters and newlines. It's so bad that the reader of this can't process this. So. If I could just remove all tab characters and newline characters from the spreadsheet, I'd be golden.

My first through was, how do I paste in a tab character, or a new line character.. What's the five sequence command to do that. Well, Google Sheets has a much easier way: REGEX.

"\t" is regex for tab, and "\n" for newline.
Find: \n to find newlines   Replace with a space, and check regular expressions

Find: \t to find tabs   Replace with a space, and ensure regular expressions is checked.


I found a full list of regular expression characters at: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions


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