From: pthornton@sawasdi.apana.org.au (Philip Thornton)
Editor.)
Message  Frederick Holmes (3:800/846.13) wrote to All:
FH> From: Frederick Holmes 
FH>   Can one do a Find (with Ctrl-F, or with Find()) a specific number
FH> of times?  One seems to be able to do a replace a specific number
FH> of times, but not a find.  At least I don't seem to find it on   the
FH> help screen as an option parameter for Find().  It also   doesn't
FH> seem to be a feature of regular expressions.
FH>
FH>   I am editing a comma-delimited ASCII database.  I want to go to
FH> the   nth field in a record.  I want to find the nth occurrence of a
FH>   comma, starting at the beginning of a line.  I don't want to have
FH> to count n manually.
As Chris was just saying for a once off quicky recording the key macro would
be the best bet.  However if there were thousands of records then it would 
ay
to sit down and write some code.  I guess it also depends on what the nth
field is going to be changed to.  The other trap with comma delimited files
are fields that contain ","'s.  To get around that each field is bound with
"'s.  It can still get very messy.  That is why from experience fixed column
databases are a lot easier to work with.
Phil..
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