Done. If someone wants to make search and replace with Python Script, in a directory:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from __future__ import print_function from Npp import * import os import sys #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class T22601(object): def __init__(self): Path="C:\\python-test" for root, dirs, files in os.walk(Path): nested_levels = root.split('/') if len(nested_levels) > 0: del dirs[:] for filename in files: if filename[-5:] == '.html': notepad.open(root + "\\" + filename) console.write(root + "\\" + filename + "\r\n") notepad.runMenuCommand("Encodage", "Convertir en UTF-8") regex_find_repl_dict_list = [ { 'find' : r'foo', 'replace' : r'bar' }, { 'find' : r'bar', 'replace' : r'gaga' }, ] editor.beginUndoAction() for d in regex_find_repl_dict_list: editor.rereplace(d['find'], d['replace']) editor.endUndoAction() notepad.save() notepad.close() #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if __name__ == '__main__': T22601()

@alan-kilborn Big thanks :)

@mohammed-osama ,

After you gave up, I made a file containing sixteen copies of:

twelve eleven ten nine eight seven six five four three two one this line succeeded in being matched

When I used the regex you quoted, it showed 16 matches, and each match was the line with “succeeded” plus the 10 lines before it:

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As far as I can tell, that “worked”, based on the problem statement you made in your posts.

When you say “but not working”, when it works for us, you have to provide more than “not working” in order for us to understand how your requirements differ from those that you’ve stated.

The “Useful References” I linked were to help you ask your question better. and would be useful to help you ask in a way that we can better understand what you want. The “Please Read Before Posting” gives important information about how to format a post, and links to how to format your text in such a way that we can read it (rather than requiring a moderator go in and fix your posts so that the regex are readable; as a moderator, I was willing to do that twice, because I thought it made your questions more accessible, which would make it more likely that you would get your help). The “Template…” is just that, a template that you can use to easily format your search/replace questions so that you give us both example data and what you have already tried. The last two were additional reading that will help you in the future.

I went to a lot of effort to make sure you got good help, and yet the extent of your reply was “but not working”. If you try harder, we can continue to try helping. If you give up, then you will never learn how to do what you want. It’s really up to you.

@alexolog, this works for 64-bit

@alan-kilborn said in Automated Search & Replace help please:

s = l.rstrip(‘\n\r’).split(‘#’)

Hi alan-kilborn, thanks so much for the help. In my simple test, that does solve the problem, appreciated.

I will now give it a try for real and no doubt realise a few further issues.

Thanks again.

@peterjones Oh, you are perfectly right. I have begun to run the script with my own python.exe
It functioned perfectly what @Ekopalypse has told me. Likewise, I have had one more problem, but I have realised what I was doing wrong. When I was saving the script, I was saving it anywhere else other than in *\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts and it was not showing up in my PythonScript script menu. I thank the two of you very much.

@terry-r said in CSVQuery doesn't work with Notepad++ 64 bit?:

If using the latest version you may be seeing the situation where lots of plugins no longer work, see this announcement.

A quick search of this forum found this post. So it appears the CSVQuery plugin hasn’t been updated for the latest version of Notepad++. However there appears to be another plugin which may fill the gap. Have a read.

Terry

An additional tip – don’t know how many scripters know this – is to put your caret on an Editor or Notepad function and invoke the context-sensitive help that Peter mentioned.

So, for example, if you have editor.gotoPos( in your code, and you put your caret somewhere in that text, and run the help, the documentation for that function will open in your default browser:

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Invoking the context help can be done on the PythonScript plugin menu (see near the bottom):

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As shown, I like to assign the Ctrl+F1 shortcut to it; by design it doesn’t have a shortcut key.

@memole1990 ,

First off, Notepad++ has two plus characters at the end of the name; that differentiates it from the “Microsoft Notepad” app that ships with your OS.

The algorithm you described (which I would phrase “look for a line which starts with 200 05914 then has a third ‘word’ on the line of an 8 digit number representing the date in yyyymmdd format, then compare that date to March 31, 2022, then delete that line and one other line if the date is after March 31, or keep it if it’s on-or-before that threshold”. (*: For that “one other line”, you give the example of 200 05978, but you don’t tell us exactly the rule for that second line, whether it’s always 3 lines below the 200 05914 line, or whether it always starts with 200 05978 no matter where in the file after the date line, or whether it’s always exactly 200 05978 0000 and nothing else would match and thus be deleted).

That algorithm includes a numeric comparison (whether it literally compares the yyyymmdd 8digit numbers, or whether it compares the underlying date in some other manner)… but unfortunately for your desire, the Notepad++ search/replace syntax (including the ultra-powerful regular expression syntax) doesn’t do numerical or date comparisons, it is just looking for patterns of strings.

Thus, your task cannot be reasonable accomplished natively in Notepad++. (I say “reasonably”, because with a complicated enough comparison pattern, you could effectively implement a single numerical comparison in a huge regular expression, but it might not fit within Notepad++ ~2000 character regular expression limit.)

If I were solving this task for myself, I would just write a program to do it in my favorite interpreted programming language. If I were solving this problem for someone who didn’t know any programming languages, but they were willing to install a plugin for Notepad++, I would have them install the PythonScript plugin, and I would give them a short script that would do pattern matching to find the 200 05914 yyyymmdd line, then do the numeric comparison in the python, then if it passes the deletion rule, delete the two lines. But before coding something up for someone else, I would insist upon a clear definition that got rid of the ambiguities I mentioned earlier.

@marcelo-finkielsztein
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thanks your help for the deltail.
copy the raw data from exvel VBA or notepad++ copy and paste into excel vba are same problems.

I will try to via MS notepad to notepad++ to solve this problem.

thanks

@wanderinformatiker

I use v8.3.3 32-bits and apart from Global Styles, which is at the top of the list, and Search Results, which is at the bottom of the list, all the languages are in alphabetical order.

@PeterJones that looks like what I’m looking for. I’ll have to read up on integrating npp user parameters with plugins, thanks!

@PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn
Thanks for looking into it and thanks for the suggestion.

@vladimir-zherdenovsky ,

I don’t think that AnalysePlugin has released a version of their plugin that’s compatible with the changes made in Notepad++ v8.3.3 – there was a slight change to the interface between plugins and Notepad++ made in v8.3.0; many plugins are having to release a new version to make it compatible, and if a plugin doesn’t have an updated version, many old plugins will not work with v8.3.3.

It looks like AnalysePlugin created a pre-release 01.13-pre1 a few days after NPP v8.3 was released, so if you download the zipfile at https://sourceforge.net/projects/analyseplugin/files/binaries/v01.13-pre1/ and unzip the DLL overtop your old AnalysePlugin.dll, it might be able to work with NPP v8.3.3 for you.

Good luck

Hi, @memytim19,

Just look here for documentation

BR

guy038

@jonathandl2 , Not in mine, with a Firefox browser and the Ad Block Plus installed. :)

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@astrosofista @Michael-Vincent, thank you. I will look into this and will try it out. Appreciate it.

@brian-d ,

If I type blah with “append extension” enabled, it calls it blah.txt when saved, which is the exact behavior I would desire.

And in Windows OS, if you type blah. (with the period), that is the way of telling Windows OS “I want the extension portion to be empty: that is, NO EXTENSION, I MEAN IT” … so if the developer were to take your advice, and say “if the user types period, which is the OS’s defined way of specifying no extension, I should ignore the defined behavior and instead use something that is completely nonstandard after 30+ years of DOS/Windows backward compatibilty”, that seems a rather strange option. Especially since all you have to do is not type the period if you want Notepad++ to apply the extension.

If you mean, "I want to enter blah.xyz, and have it save it as blah.xyz.txt, then at that point, just type a couple extra characters. It’s not that onerous: but that’s just my opinion – and since this Community Forum is made up of users, and is not official feature-request tracking, that’s all you will get here in the forum, is opinions and workarounds; the FAQ in the forum explains where to go for actually submitting a feature request to the development team.

@niente0 ,

The default Dark Mode theme has the active tab highlight as not a huge difference from the background color, but it makes more contrast than your screenshot shows, at least to my eyes:
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Maybe you’ll want to start with that theme, rather than starting with “black board” (because “black board”, and the rest of the classical darker themes, were designed with the light UI in mind; default-dark-mode is the only theme that was designed with the Dark Mode UI in mind).

But yes, as of now, the Document List “highlight” background involves interpolating between the current Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Default Style > Background colour and black… so when Background colour is very dark, there isn’t much contrast (and if it’s black, there is no contrast).

So yes, your suggestion that Notepad++ look at the background color, and determine whether the “active highlight” in the Document List should go darker or lighter is a good one. We cannot do anything about changing the source code here, as a forum made up of the Community of fellow users.

There may or may not have been an issue created about that before. If you don’t know where Notepad++ issues are tracked, look in the forum’s FAQ section, which will link you there; then you can search the issues for keywords like “dark mode”, “document list”, “background”, “contrast”, and similar terms, and see if it’s been brought up before. (Might want to check active and closed issues, because maybe it’s been asked and rejected)