Re: emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:

> I worked it out.
>
> m-%
>
> ^\(.*\) Ctrl-Q newline \(.*\)
>
> with
>
> \1 <tab> \2
>
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 11:23, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a text file of modem country codes like this:
>>
>> T.35 Code
>> Country
>> 00
>> Japan
>> 07
>> Argentina
>> 09
>> Australia
>> 0A
>> Austria
>>
>>
>> But I want to transform the buffer to look like this:
>> T.35 Code Country
>> 00              Japan
>> 07              Argentina
>> 09              Australia
>> 0A              Austria
>>
>> What regex would do that?

FWIW, I usually do these things with keyboard macros. If the source data
is very regular, it can be much faster than finding the right regex. In
this case it would be very easy to record: end-of-line,
delete-next-character, insert-tab, next-line.

Eric