It would make sense for Notepad++ to properly set the association when installed.

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Hello @haitt2102, and All,

Your regex is quite correct but ONLY IF the [COMMENT.....] area of chars belongs to an unique line, as in the first two occurrences of your example !

So, you must use the (?s) modifier syntax to be sure that the dot regex meta-charaqcter match any single char ( standard or EOL chars ) in order that a match may be spread out on several lines !

Thus, this regex S/R should work :

SEARCH (?s)\[.+?\]

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

If your text may also content square bracket(s) as normal characters, the regex, below, will be more restrictive :

SEARCH (?s-i)\[COMMENT.+?\]

Note that I added the (?-i) modifier ( meaning no-insensitive ), to be sure that the regex engine will search for the uppercase string COMMENT

Remarks :

The (?s) or (?-s) has higher priority than the . matches newline option of the Find/Replace dialog. Idem for the (?i) or (?-i) modifiers, regarding the Match case option

Notice, also, that the (?s)\[.+?\] regex, could be replaced with the \[(.|\R)+?\] regex, which matches exactly the same occurrences, as \R match any kind of new-line characters !

Cheers,

guy038

@Warren60
I’ve been doing a bit of research on old posts here and found one that can easily line up the columns for you. Look at
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14717/column-aligning-jagged-data/5

So I’d firstly use the comma to replace that with a number of spaces say about 10 or so. The actual number would depend on the maximum size of your number range used. You have 27 characters in ExperiencePointsForLevel[]= alone. Then you just need to add the length of the largest number to be assigned inside the [] and also the one after the = sign. Say you have 5 and 7 respectively, then you’d have 39 characters as the maximum length. You then need to figure out how far apart would the columns be, would it be say 40 (1 space minimum) or 45 which gives 6 spaces minimum. Let’s go with 6. So 45 less 29 (27 +1+1 minimums) give 17, so replace , with 17 spaces (not actually spaces in my example).

Once that has been achieved use the 3rd regex in the link above
^(.{12}) +
but replace 12 with 45, being the number we picked above. Replace all and that will align the 2nd column. Then replace 35 with 90 and repeat the replace all. Again change 70 with 135 and… you get the idea.

Terry

@Scott-Sumner

i’m relieved now, thanks for the info 👍

Thank you, I’ll report this issue on bugtracker as suggested!

It worked thank you

@vdesire2641 hi how are you