Reply To: GREP to replace long row of periods with tab

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January 15, 2018 at 10:39 am #100971
William Posey
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For anyone else that finds this – since the PERIOD is a special character in grep searches it must be escaped by placing a backslash in front of it. When posting to this comment the backslash was probably deleted:

FIND: \.{3,}
REPLACE:

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