[loren s]

Lets say I have a ; symbol in my text. What could I use to select all of those in a page of text and chage their size weight type or even font ?

I have a tons of time code like so 40;43;29;38;10 and want to make it like 40;43;29;38;10
or so ..
Any ideas or tools I could use ?
Ugh,, thats a bad example i tried bold tags but you stil can't see teh difference..; but in text I could style it however

[Chuckit]

Find and Replace in Microsoft Word.

[TETENAL]

You could probably do it with AppleScript. It depends on which program you are using.

Code:
tell application "TextEdit"
	set theText to the text of the front document
	repeat with i from 1 to the length of theText
		set theChar to the character i of theText
		if theChar is equal to ";" then
			set the font of character i of the text of the front document to "Helvetica Bold"
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

[ghporter]

I have imported I don't know how many text documents into Word just to manipulate them with find and replace. It works, it's simple, and it's repeatable. It's quite easy to replace anything, including replacing a character with the same character of a different size, bold/italic/underline attribute and/or font. Really.

Of course most of what I did was to eliminate excess crap from text dumps (or even multiple levels of ">" in emails that included who knows how many forwards), so I usually saved the results as text instead of .doc files, but you can do whatever you want with the results.

[wataru]

Any app that uses the Oniguruma regex framework for find & replace, such as SubEthaEdit. That's about as powerful as it gets.