insert text at the begining of each line

[user]

hello

can you tell me please, how can I insert some text at the begining and at the end of each line ?

thanks!

[Mofi]

UltraEdit style regular expression:

Find What: %^(*^)$
Replace With: text at begin of line^1text at end of line

Unix/Perl style regular expression:

Find What: ^(.*)$
Replace With: text at begin of line\1text at end of line

Click on the Help button in the Find or Replace dialog and read the help article and the article "Regular Expressions" referenced at this help page.

[EllE]

i test this

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOff
Top
Find RegExp "%^(*^)$"
Replace All "XXX^1XXX"

replaced all but only last row not

before:

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a
a
a

after:

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XXXaXXX
XXXaXXX
a

you must use this

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a
a
a



for propher

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XXXaXXX
XXXaXXX
XXXaXXX



[Mofi]

Correct. The last line of the file must be also terminated with the EOL character(s). Because I often see users which have files where the last line of the file has no line termination, I use following macro code in most of my macros at the beginning to make sure that the last line of the file is also terminated:

InsertMode
Bottom
IfColNum 1
Else
"
"
EndIf
Top

It's very simple. It moves the cursor to the end of the file. If the cursor is now at column 1, fine - nothing must be done because the last line of the file is already terminated. If the cursor at the end of the file is not at column 1, the last line is not terminated and the macro adds now the line termination according to current file format (DOS/UNIX/MAC). Next the cursor is moved back to top of the file before the real macro code starts.