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Sarmat89 · 09-16-2022, 02:53 PM

Your file contains OCR errors.

Code:

^([^[]+?) *(?=\[)

replaced with

Code:

\1\t

will insert the tab after the text preceding the first [ in the line, excluding the spaces, and the [ itself.

If you are going to use perl, try

Code:

perl -pe "s:^([^[]+?) *(?=\[):\1\t:" <your-file-here >destination.tsv

09-16-2022, 02:53 PM	#63
Sarmat89 Fanatic Posts: 515 Karma: 2268308 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: none	Your file contains OCR errors. Code: ^([^[]+?) (?=\[) replaced with Code: \1\t will insert the tab after the text preceding the first [ in the line, excluding the spaces, and the [ itself. If you are going to use perl, try Code: perl -pe "s:^([^[]+?) (?=\[):\1\t:" <your-file-here >destination.tsv