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Getting Started6
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Finding a proper text editor 8Notep
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Finding a proper text editor 10Edit
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Finding a proper text editor 12Text
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Finding a proper text editor 14does
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Finding a proper text editor 16Yest
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A better Find-and-Replace 20The lim
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A better Find-and-Replace 22Using R
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Your first regex 24helloThe Find-an
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Your first regex 26The regex syntax
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Your first regex 28Double-bounded
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Your first regex 30AnswerFind \bcat
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Removing emptinessIt’s funny how
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Removing emptiness 34Now let’s do
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Removing emptiness 36…as opposed
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Sorting a police blotter 154Sloppy
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Sorting a police blotter 156I used
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Moving forwardThank you for taking