Find: \s{2,}
Replace with: ,
Explanation: I wanted to find where there was two or more spaces in
between the columns. I used the curly brackets to represent two or more.
We were asked to replaces the spaces with a comma which is what I
included in the replace field.
Find: (\w+), (\w+), (.*)
Replace with: \2 \1 \(\3\)
Explanation: I wanted to the first name, last name, and the institution.
To do this I used the parentheses to keep the three sections to call on
later. For the first two parentheses, I included \w+
followed by a comma and a space so that I found a one or more characters
followed by a comma and a space. I did not include the comma and space
in the parentheses because I did not want to “keep” these. In the final
set of parentheses I included .* because I wanted to grab
zero or more consecutive characters, essentially the rest of the
characters. In find, I ordered by saved parts in 2 (first name), 1 (last
name), followed by a backslash open parenthesis, part 3, followed by a
final backslash close parenthesis in order to add parentheses around the
institution name.
Find: \.mp3
Replace with: \.mp3 \n
Explanation: I wanted to search for the character string “.mp3” (with a
space after it) and then add a single line break after those character
strings. To do this, in the “replace with” field I put
\.mp3 followed by \n to include the line
break.
Find: (\d{4})\s(.*\w+.*)(.mp3)
Replace with: \2\_\1\3
Explanation: In find, I wanted to save three different portions, the
digits, the title, and the file type.To separate the digits I used
(\d{4}) to signify I wanted a digit string that was 4
digits long without the space saved. Next, I wanted the rest of the
text, without the space and the .mp3 portion at the end. In
the replace field I simply ordered my saved portions and included the
underscore after the title portion.
Find: (\w)\w+,(\w+),.*(,.*)
Replace with: \1\_\2\3
Explanation: I wanted to save three portions, the first letter of the
genus, the species name, and the final numerical variables. I separated
out the first letter with (\w), then essentially ignored
the rest of the word and comma using \w+,. The species was
saved using (\w+). The comma and the first numerical
variables were found by using ,.*, however the last
numerical variables were saved using (,.*), using the comma
to identify the beginning of the variables I wanted to keep. I then
parsed together the three saved bits in the replace with field, being
sure to add an underscore after the first letter of the genus.
Find: (/w)\w+,(\w{4})\w+,.*(,.*)
Replace with:\1\_\2\3
Explanation: The find field stayed mostly the same as in question 5.
However, instead of keeping the entire species name, I only selected the
first 4 characters and did not save the rest. The replace with field
stayed the same as question 5.
Find:(\w{3})\w+,(\w{3})\w+(,.*)(,.*)
Replace with: \1\2\4\3
Explanation: The first three characters of the genus and species were
saved along with the two numerical variables. Everything else was
identified but not saved. In the replace with field, the four saved
sections were arranged in the order 1, 2, 4, 3.