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Asked: 2026-06-18T14:31:15+00:00

I’ve got a CSV file from an Access Database for importing into MySql. It

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I’ve got a CSV file from an Access Database for importing into MySql. It contains a catalogue of Books and Journals. It’s delineated by semicolons. It has about 4000 entries.

The problem I have is that the titles of many of the books and journals listed contain semicolons.

What i’m looking for is a simple RegEx search to run in Sublime Text 2 to finds the lines, in the .csv file, that have a greater number than 5 semicolons.

This will let me quickly edit the offending Titles rather than trying to read the entire DB.

I’m not too familiar with RegEx so be gentle…

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can just use this regex:

    (.*;){5}

    It will highlight (part of) any line with 5 or more ;.

    Simply put, the regex will search for 5 instances of [0 or more of any character (except new line) .* followed by ;].

    In depth explanation would involve the talk about greedy quantifier, in which the .* part (with * being quantifier for 0 or more, and it is also greedy) eats up as much text as possible. As a result, even if there are more than 5 ; in the line, all of them become part of the match, which makes the rest of the line unmatchable and the match has to continue on the next line.

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