Can Win7 do this simple task?

[no.to...@gmail.com]

I had to buy this Win7 device, to use my wireless modem.
Now it seems that M$loth's basic editors: notebook & wordpad
can't do this simple task -- or is it just me?

I've got textFiles, which have a "<><><><><><><>" line,
followed by about 500 lines of text,
followed by the next separator: "<><><><><><><>" line.
followed by about 500 lines of text ...etc.

I need to extract, to a new file, eg. the 3rd section,
between 2nd <separator> and the 3rd <separator>.

Firstly wordpad's <searchFrame> is just STOOPID, since it
gets in the way of the found text. My proper editors, don't
need to have a <search window moved out of the way>.

The most intolerable fact is that I can't see how to:
<set the beginning of the 'mark-section': by 'shift'>,
and while holding down the shift,
activate the search for next "<><>".

Because, activating the search,
causes the 'shift'[hold marker] to be lost.

Also, If I have to 'mark/scroll down to the next
"<><>" MANUALLY, it doesn't seem capable of
<write/append the marked section to an external file>.

So I'd have to use: 1=copy, 2=create new file, 3=paste.

What a load of CRAP!!

[Rob]

On 08/05/2011 15:12, no.to...@gmail.com wrote:
> I had to buy this Win7 device, to use my wireless modem.

> Now it seems that M$loth's basic editors: notebook& wordpad

Can no.top.post do this simple task:
Use standard separators in your files instead of non-standard ones
which may cause problems in many editors, not just windows based ones?
Your use of non-standard symbols in text files is simply intolerable.