Hello, @terry-r and All,

I said :

I was waiting the Terry’s reply, first,…

Because I think it is more fair to let the first guy, helping the OP, to develop his solution ;-)) Then, you can jump into the discussion, proposing alternate solutions, too !

Besides, I know that I’m really too eager to give my regex solutions and, very often, I must prevent some people from helping their own solutions ;-))

Now, regarding your solution, you’re right about it : best to avoid large amounts of data inside the look-ahead structure ;-))

So, from the short example data, given in my previous post :

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten twenty-two %%%%%%%%%% twenty-two five nineteen seven

First, using the Edit > Column Editor... option, at column 12 or more, we would get :

one 01 two 02 three 03 four 04 five 05 six 06 seven 07 eight 08 nine 09 ten 10 twenty-two 11 %%%%%%%%%% 12 twenty-two 13 five 14 nineteen 15 seven 16

And , after the Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending option, we have :

%%%%%%%%%% 12 eight 08 five 05 five 14 four 04 nine 09 nineteen 15 one 01 seven 07 seven 16 six 06 ten 10 three 03 twenty-two 11 twenty-two 13 two 02

Now, using the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+)\x20+\d+\R\1\x20+\d+\R? OR (?-s)^(.+)(\x20+\d+\R?)\1(?2)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

We are left with :

%%%%%%%%%% 12 eight 08 four 04 nine 09 nineteen 15 one 01 six 06 ten 10 three 03 two 02

Then, moving back the numbers from the end to the beginning of line and adding a space column, with the column mode selection, we would obtain :

12 %%%%%%%%%% 08 eight 04 four 09 nine 15 nineteen 01 one 06 six 10 ten 03 three 02 two

And, after a last ascending sort, we have :

01 one 02 two 03 three 04 four 06 six 08 eight 09 nine 10 ten 12 %%%%%%%%%% 15 nineteen

Finally, after processing this last regex S/R, we get our expected text, removing leading numbers and trailing spaces as well as anything from the separation line till the very end of file :

SEARCH (?s)^\d+\h*%%%+.+|^\d+\h*|\h+$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

one two three four six eight nine ten

Cheers,

guy038

@Michael-Weet said in Shuffle text lines:

shuffle text lines

Welcome to the NPP forum. I first have to say your sentence “nicely sort lines ascending or descending” contradicts the request to “shuffle” especially when the link refers to a random sort.

You should be aware that an ascending or descending sort can easily be done with “Line Operations” which is under the “Edit” menu. However random sorts aren’t possible in NPP without additional help from plugins or one of the supporting programming languages.

Might I suggest you read the posts:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/16318/sorting-lines-evenly-in-document
as that might give you some direction.

As a very rough simile to “randomness” considering grabbing 2 characters at different positions within each line, copying these to the start of the line, then sorting. Then those characters could be removed, thus leaving a “sort-of” random ordering of the lines.

Terry

Thank you!
It works when I define operator 1 as follows: -.
:-)

BG,
Heike

@Alan-Kilborn
found some discussion from the community.
I still haven’t found the problem, maybe it was the linked post
I mistakenly thought was reported as a problem.

Notepad++ is an standalone Win32 application. No client/server concept.
The application itself does get updated whenever Don, the author of npp,
sees a need to do so.

Hi @Wally-Kempf

Maybe I’m assuming too much, but if you want to get rid of those false line wraps, extend @Alan-Kilborn 's regex as follows:

Search: (?s)(\R)(?!"\d{6}",) Replace: \x20

which produces this two-lines outcome:

"040339","0006","013","Amherst at City View","","","","","","HOUSTON","TX","77060","17103 IMPERIAL VALLEY DR","227","75.00","8.000000","AI","gate code 2070","","1","","","","","","","","29.946850","-95.396846","1.00","","","174350" "041217","0001","001","PALM BEACH ESTATES ","","","","","","HOUSTON","TX","77060","16818 CITY VIEW PL","227","76.00","8.000000","AI","GATE CODE 1454 SECTION 1 GATE CODE 1453 ACROSS THE STREET ENTRANCE IS ON CITY VIEW OFF BENMAR","","1","","","","","","","","29.934018","-95.396125","1.00","","","174325"

Best Regards.

I will try this and will surely tell you if it worked

It wasn’t so much a “worked” as “we need to see what Notepad++ is sending to the command processor to figure out what’s going wrong”.

But with the bit of information, it’s irrelevant now:

I used %cd% to go to the directory… but cd /d "%~dp0" should be used in case of opening batch file

Yes, the /d makes sense. I tend to forget that changing directory and drive using cd is more difficult; I primarily use single-drive systems (well, at work, we have network drives mapped to letters, but I’m almost never cd-ing into those directories)

The %~dp0 changes the batch/script name to just be a drive and folder… but since in the NotepadPlusPlus user-commands, you don’t have a batch/script filename, and $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) already gives what you want (just the drive and folder), you don’t need that part.

So, the command you need is

<Command name="Java_Executor" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /k cd /d &quot;$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)&quot; &amp;&amp; &quot;D:\Projects\Java\Executor_Java.bat&quot;</Command>

Note: I also put quotes around $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) as well, in case it has spaces in the path.

BTW: Thanks for linking to the SO thread; when asking a question in multiple forums, it’s polite to crosslink both right away, so people can see whether it’s already been answered in the other location, or can learn from the other community’s responses.

Hi, @alex-mesch,

To begin with, click on the link, below :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15765/faq-desk-where-to-find-regex-documentation

Cheers,

guy038

Now I have another problem no matter how much you save the file in html on the browser where I run it exit the scripts without letting me see the content (sorry for English)

@godavari-gupta

what about disabling this setting

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Perhaps also a standard UDL (User Defined Language) can help in your case; this would also make the styling permanent.

Yes, use $ as a keyword and check prefix box.
Will color everything starting from $ til first non-word-char.

Hello, @tarek-faham,

I’m a bit surprised because this kind of replacement is quite easy to process, even in normal search mode !

SEARCH ""

REPLACE "

giving the new macro :

<Macro name='UnEscape &quot;&quot; to &quot;' Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <!-- Macro NAME & possible SHORTCUT --> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <!-- Initialization S/R --> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot;&quot;' /> <!-- SEARCH "" --> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <!-- NORMAL search mode --> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot;' /> <!-- REPLACE " --> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" /> <!-- or 512, if NO Wrap-around --> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <!-- Replace All, in CURRENT file --> </Macro>

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @the-best-of-voice and *All,

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH ^\h*\d+\h*\R

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around option, if all the file must be processed and untick this option if the replacement must occur from current location till the very end of file, only

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Notes :

From beginning of line ( ^ ), it matches possible horizontal blank characters, as Space, Tabulation ( \h* )

Followed with a non-null range of digits (\d+ )

Followed with possible horizontal blank characters, again ( \h* )

And ended with its EOL chars ( \r\n for Windows files, \n in Unix files or \r in Mac files )

As replacement zone is EMPTY, the entire line, containing digits, only, with possible blank chars, is then deleted

Best Regards,

guy038

this lesson is well understood :)

I’m an amateur in website creation, and I have several pages under different names, that I have to put dashes (-) instead of Space and at the end of each line before the / I’ll add extension .html and the rest after (/) is the title of each page.

@Don-Patton

Maybe try a file compare on the original file and the file after alteration with Notepad++? It seems like something unintended is getting changed (I guess that is a fairly obvious statement).

@TBugReporter

if I use fifteen programs by Compatublo, eight by DidgeryDot, and twelve from NaNsoft…

I’ll bet that you don’t. :-)

when the fix might only require a three line code change

People that make these kinds of statements, and we seem to see them a lot here, just show they don’t know what they are talking about.

create an issue on the GitHub…done

And well done at that.

devs should also be allowed to decide for themselves

They surely do. Those people are golden, and in general, underappreciated. Three cheers.

Thanks @Alan-Kilborn and @guy038 . Both of them worked what I was looking for. I’m still new to regular expressions, but I will try to dig in more on both of your solutions.

Hi, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and all,

Alan, I gave it a try to verify the behavior of my very old and weak XP SP3 system, on my old NEC M350 laptop ;-))

Some time ago , for various tests, I downloaded the N++ source files, so the two folders PowerEditor and scintilla in a new folder, named Sources. With my last installed N++ release ( v7.8.3 ) I ran the following Files in Files search

Search "(?-s)the.*not" (167 hits in 45 files) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\license.txt (18 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\readme.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Common.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\mutex.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Sorters.h (2 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\verifySignedfile.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\PluginsManager\Notepad_plus_msgs.h (7 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyxml.h (15 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyXmlA\tinyxmlA.h (15 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\CharDistribution.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\JpCntx.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsBig5Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCharSetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCodingStateMachine.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nscore.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEscCharsetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCJPProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCKRProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCTWProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsGB2312Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsHebrewProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsLatin1Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsMBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsPkgInt.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCharSetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSJISProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUniversalDetector.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUTF8Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\prmem.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\uchardet.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8_16.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\PluginsAdmin\pluginsAdmin.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\shortcut\shortcut.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\PlatCocoa.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\ScintillaView.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\doc\Lexer.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\include\Platform.h (2 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\License.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\AutoComplete.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\CaseConvert.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Document.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Style.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\ViewStyle.h (1 hit)

Presently, my current session already contained 36 opened files, in various folders

The search directory was D:\@@\770\Sources and the filters zone contained *.txt *.h. All the search was done in 1,9 s

Note that the total size, of these 45 files, is not very important : 336,206 bytes

The opening, within N++, of these 45 files, with the Open All option, took 3,09 s Then, I just have to use 45 times the Ctrl + W shortcut to get rid of all these additional test files ;-))

May be, you could open the Windows Event Manager ( eventvwr.msc ), choose System, then the menu option View > Filter.... Now, tick Error events only and valid. You may also choose disk in the event source list, for an additional filtering ?

Best Regards,

guy038

@VTGroupGitHub said in Make ctrl-shift-tab move like ctrl-tab:

In case anyone needs this in the future, choose “Settings” / “Shortcut Mapper”

Your description is specific to what you’ve configured, but in general, that’s how you’d remap anything, so really, you’ve created a general description of how to use Shortcut Mapper. :-)

@Ekopalypse

Only changes by the instance which get closed last will be saved.

Oh, yea. Knew that. Another reason to dislike M.I. :-)