Hi, @alan-kilborn and All, Here is a solution, as a work-around, to manage the presence of the NUL character(s) in a file : Choose an other character, not used, yet, in your file. Let’s take the \x{007F} control character Delete So, you first run the regex S/R, below, with the Wrap around option and the Regular expression search mode SEARCH \0 REPLACE \x7F Then you perform all your text manipulations, in Notepad++ Finally, save your file and exit N++ As we cannot insert any NUL character, with an N++ replacement, we’ll simply use the well known utility sed.exe You can download its last Windows v4.8 - 64 bits version, from https://github.com/mbuilov/sed-windows Or other versions, from https://github.com/mbuilov/sed-windows/tree/master/archive Then, in a DOS console window, type in and execute this simple command : sed.exe -i s/\x7f/\x00/ Your_File Best Regards, guy038

Another technique is to use \K at the end of your find string. In that usage you then do not use ${0} in the replace. Your replacement string will be inserted at the end of the text your find string matches. I mention this usage because that seems to be what you are needing. However, if you ever have a situation where you want your find string text to be in the middle of a replacement, then the ${0} usage is the solution.

It’s a montage made by a contributor to show me what he’d like to have, and since that was exactly what I wanted myself, I took the picture and forwarded it over here ^^’ You can see there’s a gray line hanging kind-of off, but still I’ve asked him to be sure, and yes it was a montage (else he’d have pushed his script to the repo I guess) Thanks for the clarifications @MAPJe71 :) So we can’t push more forward for now; thank you very much to all of you following and helping on this topic! Take care people

@Fabio-grossi Regex isn’t going to be able to help you with this task.

sorry @guy038 I stole the regex star from you ;-)

@guy038 This is how it looks on your system, but I assume it might look different on a system where OSMANYA is more common. That is, of course, if there is a localized version of Windows that OSMANYA takes into account.

@bowoo-king said in find group of machting characters: duplication of a group of 8 characters in a string The example showed digits so that’s what my solution was tailored to. But… If it is truly “characters” then this might be more appropriate: (?-s)(.{8}).*?\1

@Mary-Lou-Sullivan Typically the reality of how it goes is you ask a specific question about what you think is a defect. You can do this in about any version you like. Probably someone will try out your suspected bug in whatever version they have, in all likelihood a later version than yours. If they do not experience the same problem you did, their advice might be for you to upgrade to a newer version and try again. If you’re asking if there are dedicate teams supporting each of version 7.1.x, 7.2.x, etc. (or something like that) and then fixing bugs in these specific versions for release as later 7.1.y, etc, then the answer is NO.

Hello List itemIdentify the common text string you wish to remove, in this example, “Accepts Google Pay” List itemClick the Column Options dropdown arrow and select Set regular expression. The Set regular expression dialog box appears. List itemIn the Match box, enter “Accepts Google Pay\s+(.+)” to identify the Accepts Google Pay string and then capture the remainder of the string in the first capture capture group. List itemIn the Replace box, enter $1 to print out the first capture group. The prefix disappears from the column data, leaving the remainder of the string intact. I hope this information will be usefull for you. Thank you

nevermind… i found the problem… Go to the User Defined Language box and select your language… in the Folders and Default tab click the Styler Tab under “Default Style” and choose your font color and live happily ever after!

@Ekopalypse Well that certainly is very nice.

@audio-scavenger yes, looks like force at beginning of line corrupts the styling for some comments.

we have the same problem and “Operators & Delimiters” is not a good alternative this will highlight as comment all the text that starts with a dash even in the middle of a line which is not what we (and this poster) want i installed various older versions of np++ portable and this bug happens between version 6.6.6 and 6.7.9

@Mr-Brunes said in Confused by Doc Switcher MRU vs Recent Files List: Close button ‘x’ icon (saves right-click > Close) Here’s where user preference comes in. I dislike an “x” icon of this type. This is possible on the existing Notepad++ tab bar, by the way; in fact, it’s the default. Why don’t I like it? Because I’m far too likely to hit it by accident, and as it is immediate, the tab is simply cooked/over/done-for.

@test-test-0 said, @PeterJones said in Advanced replace: ^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\h* That’s basically what I want, but sometimes it will be slight difference in the characters order in a specific line that I want to delete. In simple words - sometimes the time (like 09:15:01) will be in the middle of a text line, not just in the beginning. Here’s an actual example of what I want to do: Take out those numbers next to the “Line” word, and additionally delete the date and time from each line. When asking for search-and-replace help, context in regular expressions is everything. If you’re asking for help with regular expressions, you need to be as clear as possible. You said nothing about removing more than just the time. I tried to use the syntax in FIND you suggested, unfortunately it didn’t work for me. Because the requirements you listed were different than the requirements you had. [image: 1589352280360-30bc0180-9857-4405-beca-1015a278fbaa-image.png] You still haven’t followed my advice above – presenting before and after data as text (marked with the </> button so it formats as unmodified text in the forum), so that we can copy/paste your text to experiment with – so we’ve still just got your verbal description of the problem as to what you want it to look like when it is done. So there’s a good chance that this second expression I give you won’t work either, because you have not defined your problem to us sufficiently. I am going to assume you want to convert Line NUMBER: DATE TIME TEXT TO KEEP (where DATE and TIME match the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS,FFF format that you implied this time around; I am just assuming that NUMBER will be an integer with at least one digit) into Line: TEXT TO KEEP, but I will make the replace expression obvious enough that if you don’t want the Line: left in the final result, you can take it out. FIND = (?-s)Line\x20\d+:\x20\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\x20\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}\x20 I used \x20 to indicate the space character, so that there was no question (especially at the end, where I want to delete the final space after the milliseconds as well) REPLACE = Line:\x20 If you don’t want it prefixed with Line: and a space, just leave the REPLACE empty Mode = Regular Expression Here is an example it works with: Before: Line 8: 2020-05-12 12:02:03,789 INFO First Line Line 64: 2020-05-12 12:02:06,789 INFO Second Line Line 512: 2020-05-12 12:02:09,789 DATA Third Line Line 8192: 2020-05-12 12:02:13,789 STUFF Fourth Line Line 16384: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Fifth Line 32768: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Sixth Line 65536: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Seventh Heaven After: Line: INFO First Line Line: INFO Second Line Line: DATA Third Line Line: STUFF Fourth Line Line: INFO Fifth Line: INFO Sixth Line: INFO Seventh Heaven If you need changes compared to this, you will have to do a better job of showing that you want to help us help you. I have already explained how to do this in my first post.

@hardcider09 Without having a reproducible way to do/observe it, it is hard to say. Personally, I use two UDLs quite often and have not observed such behavior, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there, obviously, just that I may not be acting in the order in which you do.

Thanks for reply. I forgot to mention I had tried various styles, and the problem persists. Here is a screenshot of that same screen, keeping in mind the background I have hit ctrl-a and the entire document is selected.  https://i.imgur.com/14o0u6q.png

Hi, @mrmagnum8841, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All, When elaborating my previous post, I remenbered, from this post : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/51385 This following regex (?-s)^(.+\R)(?=(?s).+?^\1), which, indeed, could work with a 5 Mb file ,containing more than 200,000 lines ! Much better, isn’t it ? Seemingly, the fact that, in this regex, the group 1 corresponds to an entire line, with its line-break, whereas the (?-si)^.*,\x20(\w+),.*\R(?=(?s).+?^\1$) syntax stores, only, the ID### part, of each line, in group 1 ( which fails with a file over 82 Kb - 2,500 lines ! ) makes all the difference !! Why ? As you said, Peter, it was a mental exercise, not specifically intended for the OP, in order to find a correct way to filter fairly large files, as I’m rather irritated by the limitations of my various regular expression attempts :-(( Cheers, guy038