Hi, @сергій-бородін and All,

Thinking back on your problem, here is a second method, requiring fewer steps, but which will classify each non-duplicated tag, according to a different layout !

So, assuming the same initial text, below :

filename1.eps,tag1;tag2;tag3 filename2.eps,tag4;tag1;tag5 filename3.eps,tag6;tag2;tag9 filename3.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8 filename4.eps,tag1;tag9;tag5 filename5.eps,tag4;tag6;tag10;tag12 filename5.eps,tag8;tag2;tag1;tag6;tag11 filename6.eps,tag3;tag2;tag3;tag10;tag14 filename7.eps,tag5;tag7;tag15 filename8.eps,tag4;tag5;tag15;tag16 filename8.eps,tag3;tag14;tag9;tag7 filename8.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8 filename9.eps,tag2;tag10;tag17 filename10.eps,tag5;tag1;tag13 filename10.eps,tag7;tag6;tag9;tag10 filename11.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8;tag18 filename11.eps,tag10;tag12;tag13;tag20 filename12.eps,tag4;tag8;tag3;tag19 filename13.eps,tag6;tag15;tag9;tag11 filename14.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag17;tag12;tag4 filename15.eps,tag0;tag9,tag20

First this simple regex S/R, changes all this list in a one-line list :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH \R

REPLACE # ( Any symbol, not used yet, can be chosen )

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Which gives the single line, below :

filename1.eps,tag1;tag2;tag3#filename2.eps,tag4;tag1;tag5#filename3.eps,tag6;tag2;tag9#filename3.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8#filename4.eps,tag1;tag9;tag5#filename5.eps,tag4;tag6;tag10;tag12#filename5.eps,tag8;tag2;tag1;tag6;tag11#filename6.eps,tag3;tag2;tag3;tag10;tag14#filename7.eps,tag5;tag7;tag15#filename8.eps,tag4;tag5;tag15;tag16#filename8.eps,tag3;tag14;tag9;tag7#filename8.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8#filename9.eps,tag2;tag10;tag17#filename10.eps,tag5;tag1;tag13#filename10.eps,tag7;tag6;tag9;tag10#filename11.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag8;tag18#filename11.eps,tag10;tag12;tag13;tag20#filename12.eps,tag4;tag8;tag3;tag19#filename13.eps,tag6;tag15;tag9;tag11#filename14.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag17;tag12;tag4#filename15.eps,tag0;tag9,tag20

Now, here is the regex S/R, which deletes any duplicated tag ( The same regex, described in my previous post ) :

SEARCH (?-is)[,;](\w+)(?=[,;#].*?[,;]\1([,;#]|\R|\z))

REPLACE Leave the zone EMPTY

Your text should be shortened as below :

filename1.eps#filename2.eps#filename3.eps#filename3.eps#filename4.eps#filename5.eps#filename5.eps#filename6.eps#filename7.eps#filename8.eps;tag16#filename8.eps;tag14#filename8.eps#filename9.eps#filename10.eps,tag5;tag1#filename10.eps#filename11.eps;tag18#filename11.eps,tag10;tag13#filename12.eps;tag8;tag19#filename13.eps,tag6;tag15;tag11#filename14.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag17;tag12;tag4#filename15.eps,tag0;tag9,tag20

Finally, this regex S/R, below :

Replaces any semi-colon, right after the string eps with a comma

Replaces any # symbol with a line-break ( \r\n or \n )

SEARCH eps;|(#)

REPLACE ?1\r\n:eps,    OR    ?1\n:eps, if you works with an Unix file

And we obtain the final output :

filename1.eps filename2.eps filename3.eps filename3.eps filename4.eps filename5.eps filename5.eps filename6.eps filename7.eps filename8.eps,tag16 filename8.eps,tag14 filename8.eps filename9.eps filename10.eps,tag5;tag1 filename10.eps filename11.eps,tag18 filename11.eps,tag10;tag13 filename12.eps,tag8;tag19 filename13.eps,tag6;tag15;tag11 filename14.eps,tag7;tag2;tag3;tag17;tag12;tag4 filename15.eps,tag0;tag9,tag20

As you can see, the 21 non-duplicated tags ( From tag0 to tag20 ) are arranged differently, with many lines without tag, at beginning of the list !

Best Regards,

guy038

Maybe FAQ Desk: Function List Basics will give you some ideas.

@Jeffrey-Snively said in File Type issue:

Now I have a different problem. With some file types (including .txt), when I go Right-click>Open With>Choose Default Program, it gives me the option to select NPP. I select it and check the “Always use this program” box. Then when I look in Windows explorer, it shows the file type for all my .txt documents as “Notepad++ Document” instead of “.txt file” or something.

Old thread but I had same issue and this was the top google result so maybe this will help someone in future. Open regedit, go to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++_file”, instead of “Notepad++ Document” leave the description empty and reboot your PC. Thanks for someone over at SU providing this.

On re-reading, I saw a fine point I may have missed: if you only want to delete parenthesized items when it starts with (tstamp, then slight change:

FIND = \(tstamp.*?\)

The rest remains the same.

With this,

(blah keep this) (tstamp blah blah) (blah keep this)

will become

(blah keep this) (blah keep this)

If you have more requirements (the paren must start at the beginning of the line and/or end at the end of the line, or other such modifications), those refined requirements can be met. However, you will need to be more explicit.

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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 plain text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipbpard 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.

Yes, everything worked out, thank you!
The first time I didn’t understand anything… the second time I didn’t notice my mistake…
And the third time you read that I understood everything! :)

Don’t have permission to change or delete the file. I have reached out to someone who does to make the change. It may take a day or two.

Thanks for the help. :-)

@Zara-Arik

First of all thanks for the examples.
We can see that you have made an effort to explain your goals.
Unfortunately, at least for me, the explanations are confusing, so I don’t really understand what you want to do.
Obviously, like me, English is not your first language, so I would recommend that you use an Online Translator to help you.
Please note, the better/precise the question in your mother tongue is set, the better the translation will be.

To the questions:

Use the find dialog, go to the Mark Tab and mark the hits, optionally set bookmarks for each line

Probably a regex search for \(.+?\) could provide this.

How do you know if a sentence begins or ends. For this you actually need an AI that was really programmed for it and even this one won’t work 100%

and 5. I do not understand.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

@PeterJones
Thanks for your help and info.
I’ll just leave the accounts as they are, don’t want to mess things up…
This account will be the one I use from now on.

Best regards,
Red

hi, first of all i had a similar problem and it took a long time to solve the problem. as a result, I solved the problem completely and the steps should be as follows; First, you should uninstall Notepad ++ from the program manager, then open the file manager and select the option to show hidden files, folders and drives again in the window with the options> options> folder. then say okay close the windows. Open this computer window and search by typing Notepad ++ in the search box. after doing all these, run the registry editor searching CTRL + S Regedit, close all open folders, click on the computer and open the search window with the combination of CTRL + F Search the name Notepad ++ and delete the found files. Use the find next option to find and delete all, then restart your computer. Download notepad ++ x86.exe and x64.exe, then install the first x86. disable run when finished setup. then install the x64 version without running anything. When installation is finished run and close notepad ++. then reload the x86 version and all settings will be reset.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Configuration files each project?:

@Christian-Busse

I suggest using the EditorConfig plugin.
For background infos, see https://editorconfig.org/

Great! Perfect for us!

Now we can rest and go to bed :-D
If there is anything about the script let us know here.

Good night.

@PeterJones I thought, they wanted Batch to run instead of opening it in Notepad++ directly (like the default functionality); guess I mis-understood their motives…

Okay, here’s another (and probably last) try.
Basically, if there’s no active selection and the caret isn’t touching a word when the script is run, it means you want to modify the current prefix/suffix setup.
Otherwise, the current prefix/suffix is applied to the current selection/word.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import editor class T19459a(object): def __init__(self): self._prefix = '' self._suffix = '' def update_prefix_suffix_info(self): separator = '-' while True: user_input = notepad.prompt( 'Enter PREFIX{s}SUFFIX :\r\n(PREFIX or SUFFIX (not both) maybe be empty, but must still use {s})'.format(s=separator), '', '') if user_input == None: return # Cancel parms_list = user_input.strip().split(separator) if len(parms_list) == 2: (prefix, suffix) = parms_list if len(prefix) + len(suffix) == 0: continue break self._prefix = prefix self._suffix = suffix def run(self): already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle = False if len(self._prefix + self._suffix) == 0: self.update_prefix_suffix_info() already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle = True word_at_caret_or_selection = '' (sel_start, sel_end) = (editor.getSelectionStart(), editor.getSelectionEnd()) if editor.getSelections() == 1 and sel_start != sel_end: word_at_caret_or_selection = editor.getTextRange(sel_start, sel_end) else: start_of_word_pos = editor.wordStartPosition(editor.getCurrentPos(), True) end_of_word_pos = editor.wordEndPosition(start_of_word_pos, True) if start_of_word_pos != end_of_word_pos: word_at_caret_or_selection = editor.getTextRange(start_of_word_pos, end_of_word_pos) editor.setSelection(end_of_word_pos, start_of_word_pos) if len(word_at_caret_or_selection) == 0: if not already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle: self.update_prefix_suffix_info() elif len(self._prefix + self._suffix) > 0: editor.beginUndoAction() editor.replaceSel(self._prefix + word_at_caret_or_selection + self._suffix) editor.endUndoAction() if __name__ == '__main__': try: t19459a except NameError: t19459a = T19459a() t19459a.run()

For future readers who think we ignored this question, it’s because we tackled the problem in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19455/securepad-help, a nearly-identical posting from about a minute later in the Plugin Development category.

@Stefan-N said in regex replace doesn't work:

By “leading assertions” you are talking about the “look ahead/behind” structure?

Yes.

When you are doing “step finds” (where you press Find Next to repeatedly jump to the next match), the buffer to be searched literally starts right where the caret is.
There is no knowledge of what comes to the “left” of the caret.
Thus, a positive look-behind assertion at that point will always fail – which is what you are seeing.
A negative look-behind assertion will always succeed.
Just a peculiarity of the N++ searching engine.
Something to remember for the future!

I copied your macro, restarted Npp and did some tests and
those worked for me. Sorry, not sure what breaks it on your side.

@Perry-B

It seems like this regex will match your text: (?s)^\h+?<vehicle>.*?</vehicle>\R

Issue is created at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8304.

Best regards!

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you Alan, this looks lot easier to work with. but it seems like I need to update my Notepad++ I have older version.

Hey by the way, I found one more link that might help, just sharing if any one else can use it. https://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-flat-file.htm

Hello, @brian-krontz, @ekopalypse, @terry-r @alan-kilborn, @makwana-prahlad and All,

To @makwana-prahlad :

Why are you using such a complicated script, with some advanced options of sed ?

To my mind, the one-line script, below, does the job nicely, too ;-))

sed -n "/^\x0C/,+5d ; /(Continued)/d ; p" Input.txt > Output.txt

Notes :

First, sed searches, in the Input.txt file, for a range of lines :

The first line of this range must contain the FF char, at beginning of current line, so the /^\x0C/ syntax

Till the next 5 lines, that is to say, till the 6th empty line. Thus, the ,+5 syntax

Then, the d command deletes this range of entire lines

Secondly, sed searches if the next 7th line contains the (Continued) string, with that exact case, so the syntax /(Continued)/ , and, in that case, the d command, again, deletes this current line

Finally, if none of these criteria can be verified, the p command simply rewrites the current line in the Output.txt file

Indeed, not the same philosophy at usual N++ regexes, but rather easy to understand, too !

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

My sed script is not totally exact ! Indeed, if a line, located outside the header zone, contains the string (Continued), this line is wrongly deleted ! But, anyway, we’re on a Notepad++ forum, after all ;-))