Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines?

From	john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr>
Newsgroups	soc.genealogy.computing
Subject	Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines?
Date	2026-03-29 16:32 +0200
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On 29/Mar/26 14:29, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> Someone in the Brother's Keeper mailing list is wanting to do a global
> search for spelling mistakes, e. g. in notes.
> 
> GEDCOM has been dismissed because it splits lines thus:
> 
> 1 NOTE married twice?  Could he already have a family somewhe
> 2 CONC re?
> 
> If there is a variation of the GEDCOM standard, I don't think BK has a
> way of invoking it when making one.
> 
> Does anyone know if any of the common GEDCOM handlers can splice
> together the CONC lines in a GEDCOM, obviously also removing the string
> "2 CONC "?

Notepad++ with the GEDcom Lexer and DSpellCheck should work.
Spell check then search for \r\n2 CONC and replace with nothing
But it could produce lines longer than 255 characters
and you need to run a regex search/replace e.g.
search ^(.{200,250}\S*)\s+(.+)$
replace $1\n$2
to put a break in between words to shorten the lines

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Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-03-29 13:29 +0100
  Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines? Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-29 14:02 +0000
    Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-03-29 16:26 +0100
      Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines? john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> - 2026-03-29 17:40 +0200
  Re: Anything to de-split GEDCOM file lines? john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> - 2026-03-29 16:32 +0200

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