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    • Pieter HoebenP
      Pieter Hoeben
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      Hi

      I have this text file and wanted to change the “,” everywhere to “;” and then all “. to “,””.

      File content:
      timestamp,I_A,V_V,B_T
      2025-11-02T22:12:16.297977,0.00018000,0.00018930,2.46600000e-07
      2025-11-02T22:12:17.401758,0.00012000,0.00000630,1.64400000e-07
      2025-11-02T22:12:18.262247,0.00018000,0.00000320,2.46600000e-07
      2025-11-02T22:12:19.122938,0.00019000,0.00000210,2.60300000e-07

      Replacing the , by ; just works. But replacing after that all . by , gives this result:
      ,
      ,
      ,
      ,
      ,

      Is “.” a wildcard? If so, howe do I replace a “.” ?
      Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug?

      Regards, and thanks for the wonderful Notepadd++ - use it a lot!

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Pieter Hoeben
        last edited by

        @Pieter-Hoeben

        You probably have the “Search Mode” set to “Regular expression”. Change it to “Normal”.

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