Text editing & cleaning unwanted text

[K3it4r0]

Hi, I would like some help to find a software to deal with text.
What I need is something that can edit and clean my text. It is quite difficult to explain, better go by examples:

I want this character ( at the end of every sentence, but not if there are more than one return.
I want to delete every number that lenght<4
I want to transform all the text with font= 11 in font = Calibri, 16, red.
I want the text with font =11 to be stored in another document
I want everything that is capitalise to have be under the tag <place>
and every line that start with *1 *2 *3 to be inserted into the tags <address>
and every line that start with font =11 with the tag <note>

It exist something like this? What I should have to learn to be able to do this kind of operations?

 

[Macman45]

It's a little hard to explain, but if you do a little research, Word for Mac will do this using something called a macro. It's basically a little script that will perform these tasks for you automatically...some better information here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/mac-word-help/create-run-edit-or-delete-a-macro-HA102927318.aspx

Of course, you will need to purchase Office for Mac. It's not that expensive these days....I can't think of another WP that will do this but others here may know.

 

[K3it4r0]

It's a little hard to explain, but if you do a little research, Word for Mac will do this using something called a macro. It's basically a little script that will perform these tasks for you automatically...some better information here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/mac-word-help/create-run-edit-or-delete-a-macro-HA102927318.aspx

Of course, you will need to purchase Office for Mac. It's not that expensive these days....I can't think of another WP that will do this but others here may know.

Thanks I will look into it. Other suggestions that I received are Text Edit plus & Text Wrangler, but I still have to search some documentation about it

 

[Macman45]

Thanks I will look into it. Other suggestions that I received are Text Edit plus & Text Wrangler, but I still have to search some documentation about it

I'd forgotten about Text Wrangler, but I can't vouch for it personally..might be worth a look at though. It's bound to be cheaper than MS Office..

 

[saberahul]

Apps like Editorial on the iPad that support Python scripts can do this for you. I'm sure there is something similar available on the Mac.