@AliciaKeller ,

Isn’t that big long section also “between separators”? How so you tell the difference?

What do you want done after it’s matched? Run it all together? Put it on separate lines, one line for each field? Put it between new separators? Something else?

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

@JS-Developer

Glad the provided regex worked for you. If you frequently run into this kind of issues, I would suggest you to read the regex guide in the FAQ section of this forum and start learning how to develop your own solutions. It could be hard but rewarding.

@Master-Of-Attack said in whenever i color something, save, close the app and open the same thing again all the colors are gone!!:

is there really no way to save it? maybe even something like a plugin

If you are willing to use the PythonScript plugin I present a script here for doing it: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46533

@jeffvb9 said in Removing text from middle of line of text:

How can I accomplish this?

I don’t see any before/after difference…?
But there’s probably something there that this site consumed.
Use the </> in the compose toolbar to format your data.

@Gaetan-Doutriaux

something like that should do the job

find: .{120}
replace: $0\r\n

@PeterJones thank you!

Thanks!!! You just saved hours of editing!!! :)

@Александр-Булатов said in Format of search results:

I would prefer an another option for it.

You are free to request that the Notepad++ developers make this output format configurable. I’d say the likelihood of it happening are close to zero, though.

To make an official feature request, see the how-to here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request-or-bug-report

Yes, but copy selected text does not need to have multiple selections active at the time of doing the copy.

There is that new black hole known as ‘Dark Mode’ (introduced in Npp 8.0), but just like any theme package, you must be prepared to spend a fair amount of time tweaking both it [ Settings > Preferences… > Dark Mode ] and your favored theme file [ Settings > Style Configutator… ]. From what I’ve gathered, there are still a few spots where Windows insists on controlling a portion of the user interface, so expect “bleed through”.

@Scott-Nielson ,

Sorry. As far as I know, when it’s enabled, Notepad++'s builtin auto-completion just suggests words based on the first N characters (where N can be changed in the auto-completion preferences), compared to other words in the current document, maybe in other open, and words or functions defined in the auto-completion files for the active Language lexer. I do not believe there is a way to remove words from that list.

its possible that font’s i tried have issues, i tried another nice looking font and has no issues.

@guy038 ,

^.*\Z

I knew that a single ^.*\Z could match zero characters; I intended it that way in case the last line of the file was an empty line (ie, a file that has a final newline). And that explains why one of the alternate versions that I played with but didn’t publish was off-by-one when I had that (though I didn’t put the two together at the time).

But I was suprised that ten instances of \Z (from (^.*\Z){10}) could match the single end of the file. I know it’s a “zero width” match, but I hadn’t thought about the fact that being “zero width” meant that two or more could match in a row. But yes, I justed tested, and confirmed that you can have a regex with multiple EOF in a row and have it still match… or multiple ^ or $ as well. Interestingly. \Z{10} is invalid, but (\Z){10} is allowed – so you cannot multiple a true zero-width expression (which makes sense), but if you have a group that happens to contain only a zero-width expression, you can multiply that expression.

Thanks for helping me learn something new today. :-)

(?-s)^.*\R(?=(?:^.*\R|.+\Z){10})

I was trying to avoid repeating myself with having to put the dots in both alternations. (?-s)^.*\R(?=(?:^.*(?:\R|.\Z)){10}) works just as well… but yours actually requires less typing, so my adherence to DRY made mine longer. :-)

@David-Tcheki wrote,

OEM-850

BTW: OEM-850 / CP850 was the default codepage in Western Europe. US Computers default to CP437 (OEM-US), so their table of ALT+### is a bit different:

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As the Wiki: Alt Codes page points out,

The familiar Alt+number combinations produced codes from the OEM code page (for example, CP437 in the United States)[c], matching the results from MS-DOS. But prefixing a leading zero (0) to the number (usually meaning 4 digits) produced the character specified by the newer Windows code page, allowing them to be typed as well.

So future readers on a US machine would want to use this table as their map, not the CP850 table shown previously.

@Donald-Milotte ,

In my recent file list I have files in there I haven’t opened for a long time! One from 2019!

Congratulations, I guess?

File > Empty Recent File List will clear that whole list, if you don’t want it there any more.

Or Settings > Preferences > Recent Files History allows you to set a maximum number of entries. So if File2019 is in the 15th slot, you could change your max list to 10, and the next time you enter Notepad++, it will only have 10 entries, so the ones older than TenthFile will no longer be listed.

@Brentley-Hefner

Yes, I think so. Try the following regex:

Search: (?-s)^\w+ ([^ ]+).* Replace: $1

Put the caret at the very beginning of the document, select the Regular Expression mode and click on Replace All.

Hope this helps.

@PeterJones said in Regex Help Wanted - Delete all lines containing "STRING":

(?-is)^.?System Tag.(\R|\z)

Worked flawlessly , thanks a lot folks for all your help, just saves me a whole bunch of work :)

@Alex-Hoesli ,

This is a known issue (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9717) mentioned multiple times in the forum.

Some people have had luck by rebooting, or changing to administrative mode, or updating video drivers.

@Alex-Danko said in Search exact:

Hi everyone,
i want to search for a G0 which is followed only by a letter and not by a number.
Example:
G0X5.Y105.
G01Z0.2
G01X5.Y-5.
G0Z5.
Search result should be only those lines:
G0X5.Y105.
G0Z5.
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance.

Something like this: G0[A-Za-z] with a regular expression search should accomplish what you want.