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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:14:25+00:00

I’m trying to reformat some data that I have that isn’t playing well when

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I’m trying to reformat some data that I have that isn’t playing well when I copy text from a pdf.

Cordless
9B12071R
CHARGER, 3.6V,LI-ION
Cordless
9B12073R
CHARGER,NI-CD,FRAMER
Framing / Sheathing tools
F28WW
WIRE COLLATED FRAMIN
Framing / Sheathing tools
N89C-1
COIL FRAMING NAILR
Framing / Sheathing tools
N80CB-HQ

I want to have it formatted like this:

Cordless      9B12071R     CHARGER, 3.6V,LI-ION
Cordless      9B12073R     CHARGER,NI-CD,FRAMER
....

What I’m trying to do is a find and replace that replaces the first two new lines “\n” with a tab “\t” and leaving the third “\n” in tact.

The first thing I do is replace all “\n” with “\t” which is easy. After that, I want to replace the third “\t” with “\n”. How would I do that using regex?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For EditPadPro, paste this into the Search box

    ([A-Za-z /]+)
([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)
(.*)

    Paste this into the Replace box

    \1  \2  \3

    And that should do it. Basically you can add carriage returns and tabs using Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+Tab in EditPadPro.

    I had to add a carriage return to your text in the question as it’s missing the last line I think. All the others are in triples of data.

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