Tab column search

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This macro allows you to do a vertical search on tab-delimited columns of data, e.g. for a table of numbers, place your cursor on the column you want to search, run the macro and then type in your search string, and it will jump down the column to the first occurance.

tab_column_search.nm

If instead your file uses fixed columns (spaces, etc.) instead of tabs, you can start with the above macro, remove the count the number of tabs bit, remove the [^\t]* bit from the search which uses the regex, and change the build the regex part to

    for(i = 0; i < $column; ++i) re = re "."

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Released on  Wed, 21 Nov 2001  by C. Denat