Hello, @Covertraptor90, Very easy, Indeed ! Move to the very beginning of your file ( Ctrl + Origin ) Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Paste or type the following regex search <drivingSkill>\d\.\d+</drivingSkill>, in the Find what: zone Paste or type the following replacement text <drivingSkill>1</drivingSkill>, in the Replace with: zone Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Replace All button Et voilà ! Notes : The syntax \d matches any single digit, from 0 to 9 The escaped dot \. stands for the decimal dot character. It must be escaped because dot is, normally, a special regex character ! The syntax \d+, identical to \d{1,}, matches any non empty range of consecutive digits Everything else is just text, which matches itself, in, both, search and replacement ! Best Regards, guy038

Solved once i figured out that ^ and $ marks start/end it was easy :) New to this, dont judge me haha

@Alan-Kilborn Hi Alan, I assume that 50 is just an arbitrary number, wasn’t able to find any msdn document which states that this is a limit. Can’t say anything about python script future plans, unfortunately. Cheers Claudia

@moon6969 Hi, nice one but I guess there is little issue as you use [^\[\]] whereas, I believe, it should be [^\[] because otherwise a text like blabla] blabla [needed_text] blabala will break your logic. Cheers Claudia

I do agree this is usually the desired behavior. I often copy/paste from various sources and would hate to have all the line endings mixed up. That said, there is a way to turn it off. You’d need to install a plugin such as LuaScript or PythonScript so that you can call SCI_SETPASTECONVERTENDINGS and set it tofalse.

Also, after several minutes, I receive the message: “Failure retrieving contents of directory /”

@Martin-Bedan removing the read-only flag doesn’t change the content of a file but of course makes a process able to do changes again so it might be that some queued changes do get flushed as soon as the process determines that it can write to the file. But this is not the behavior of npp. Cheers Claudia

@Obada-Kurdi Okay, so technically it isn’t possible to directly say “Replace lines X through Y” with something else. That being said, there are some ways to achieve the goal. In your specific case, with X=1 and Y=189, it becomes fairly easy: Step 1: Move your caret to the very top of your file (important) Step 2: Execute the following “Replace” operation (not “Replace All”!): Find-what: (?-s)(.*\R){189} Replace-with: whatever you want Search-mode: Regular expression However, in the general case (where the starting line X is NOT equal to 1), things are more interesting/tricky. Here’s a solution for that general case, unfortunately it requires you to do some mental math: Step 1: Move your caret to the very top of your file (important) Step 2: Execute the following “Replace” operation (not “Replace All”!): Find-what: (?-s)(.*\R){S}\K(.*\R){L} Replace-with: whatever you want Search-mode: Regular expression where: S is the one less than the desired starting line number, note S = X - 1 L is the number of lines it is desired to replace, note L = Y - X + 1 because (from the problem statement): X is the FIRST line to replace with other data Y is the LAST line to replace with other data This technically isn’t a Notepad++ question, but more of a Boost regular expression engine question, so I’m reluctant to put forward this solution here, due to less tolerance lately for non-Notepad++ discussion. However, this does have an important N++ implication regarding where the caret is when the replacement is conducted. If this (or ANY posting on the Notepad++ Community site) is useful, don’t reply with a “thanks”, simply up-vote ( click the ^ in the ^ 0 v area on the right ).

@Мария-Денисова does this happen when you use no plugins also? You can start npp with -noPlugin switch or by renaming plugins directory temporarily. Cheers Claudia

Thank you very much!!!