@Michael-Memphis said in Compare two files and delete differences:

I need to match file one to file two and delete the non-matching lines

I don’t use plugins, of which there are quite a few, and maybe one of those might have what you are looking for.

However I would do it as follows.

For the file with ONLY account numbers, append an a to the account number. For the file with other additional information append a b to the account number and if required copy that account number (with b) to the front of the line. Combine both files into 1 new file. Sort the file numerically. Thus an account with “a” would appear before the corresponding line from file #2 (which has a b appended to account number). Use a regular expression (regex) to remove all lines with the a appended or a b line where there is no corresponding a line. This can be completed in either 1 or 2 regexes. Also remove the appended b to clean up those lines.

The result will be a new file #2. However the caveat is that now the file will have accounts in possibly a different order to what they were initially before combining and sorting. This can be overcome by additional steps in the process.

You will note that I haven’t provided any regexes, as you haven’t provided any examples of how file 1 and 2 look. I’m not suggesting providing real data (possible confidentiality issues) but as the regexes can only be matched to real data we do need examples of how the data looks in order to better support you (replace some real data with dummy info of the same type). Please read the FAQ, primarily the post titled:
FAQ Desk: Request for Help without sufficient information to help you
Whilst this post refers more to problems running Notepad++, the use of codes to insert examples in your post will be of help.

Terry

@Ann-Other said in Need to turn laser gcode into plotter gcode:

Is it possible to make it automatic so that I give notepad the file name and it gives me back the amended file?

What you could do is record a macro with several replacement operations in it.
Then when you have loaded your file into N++, run the macro.

@Ekopalypse

Peace, mercy and blessings of God Almighty

Thank you for your response

And I apologize for the delay in responding

In large files, I have not tried small files

But the comment of the honorable brother above, clarifies the problem

Thanks again

@dsnodder

by slowly moving the window to that position!!??

I think we can consider this question closed. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

@Sarah-Duong

Yes, as I said, DeepL does not support as many languages as Google, Microsoft etc… yet.
In my opinion, the secret of a good translation is to be as accurate as possible in your native language.
Furthermore, I proceed in such a way that I check whether the translated text can be meaningfully retranslated.
If so, then it will be understandable, at least I hope so.
Example data should NEVER be translated, otherwise exactly what you have described can happen.

@PeterJones

Alright. Thanks.

Yes, of couse. Many thanks.

@Mark-Russell-0

I have tried to reproduce this crash but unfortunately I failed.
Like you, I created 7 directories and added them in FAW.
Then I created another 217 directories and 21000 files in these 7 directories.

As a test I have now modified all 21000 files - Npp is not crashed.

Maybe I haven’t reached the limit yet or there is still something you have to do to reproduce the crash.

@Thato-Mogane

See HERE.

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/programing-languages/ links at end

@PeterJones,

sorry it was my mistake - I tried to search for this button it in FAQ desk.
Here is the issue:

Missing a command to close Notepad++ softly to avoid loss of recently changed settings (Issue: #8484)
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8484

Ahh. I didn’t look closely enough at your screen shot. That explains it.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

@Alan-Kilborn That would be pretty neat, I may do that.
Thank you!

@MAPJe71 Thanks a lot for your effort!
So I think this topic has come to an (temporary?) end.
With your last solution most of the possibilities are covered.
Everyone who needs 3 & 1e covered can use my last post (at least as good point to start from).

If anyone else has any idea how to cover all the possibilities, feel free to post your ideas :-)

@Jim-JC-Caulfield said in “.txt” file extension:

After the last update

Not sure what that means; please be specific with version numbers that you are talking about.

If you are talking about 7.8.7, then default behavior is to do exactly what you want, so I don’t understand…

@Kirk-Lauritzen said in Find in files, Replace!:

wipe out every td in the cells (column 2)

If I understand correctly you have many tables, all of which are 3 columns wide with varying numbers of rows. Assuming there is a Header row (1st row generally) and a Description column (again generally the left most column) which we don’t want to clear, you are just wanting to clear the 2nd column of variable data, leaving the 3rd column variable data intact

I made up a small table with the above description in mind Its:

<html> <head> <title> HTML td </title> </head> <body> <h1>Clear 1st column variable data</h1> <h2>HTML td</h2> <table border="1" width="500"> <tr> <th>NAME</th> <th>AGE</th> <th>BRANCH</th> </tr> <tr> <td>BITTU</p></td> <td><p class=“d”>22</p></td> <td><p class=“b”>CSE</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>RAKESH</p></td> <td><p class=“d”>25</p></td> <td><p class=“b”>EC</p></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

Note that I’ve assumed here that the <p class=...> code is ONLY on the variable data fields. You do state =d and =b so these are used to identify the correct column to clear. You will need to confirm whether that is true if you want to try my solution.

So using the “Replace” function
Find What:(?s)(<td><p class.+?“d”>).+?(</p></td>)
Replace With:\1\2
You MUST use search mode “regular expression” and have wrap around ticked. I noted you mentioned extended in your first post, however I have shown the selection “regular expression” as the mode to use. You also mentioned about a particular field as “containing 21 wrapped lines”. I’m thinking these lines are in fact only 1 line and if you were to turn off “word wrap” (in Notepad++) then that field would extend far to the right (off screen).

There a few assumptions I’ve had to make as you have not made much very clear, as the others have stated. In fact an example, much like I produced above, would have made a significant step forward in outlining your problem and request. To go even further, you could show that same code with the relevant data removed, thus giving us a more complete picture of the before and after situation (as @PeterJones mentioned). The quotes you use around the d and b may also have been altered in copying into the NPP post so you may need to alter them in my “Find What” expression if they aren’t of the correct kind, I did copy them from your post.

Terry

@Jonathan-Nich ,

If you want to use @andrecool-68’s suggestion of adding the lexers to the context menu: in case it wasn’t clear, the arrow wasn’t meant to indicate that opening the Languages menu will give the popup in the screenshot – rather, he modified his right-click ContextMenu to include a Syntax Language folder which allows changing to his favorite list of languges. See this discussion, where we delve more deeply into how @andrecool-68 made that folder in the context menu. To make the edits, you will use Settings > Edit Popup ContextMenu to change the settings in contextMenu.xml. See the contextMenu docs here for more on the syntax.

Alternately, you could set up a script similar to the ones described in this other thread. The post I linked contains a script which toggles between XML and HTML, which could be quickly adapted to work with CSS and PHP. Throughout the thread, there are also examples of using a macro to just set the language instead of toggling, and other similar concepts.