@kopalypse
Thank you for the webbrowser suggestion. I tried it and it gets me 90% to my objective.
on my PC It lauches a window in internet exploror 11, not my default browser. Thank you for the suggestion and I will look deeper down this path to see if I can change this default.

@ PeterJones
your code samples and comments are perfect guidance for my knowledge level.
I have much to learn, thank you all for your responses.

@andrecool-68 said:

@Meta-Chuh
Plant it horizontally))

Super… nO cONFUSION aT aLL. :P

@Michael-Pollard

It sounds like a problem, surely. But for what you are trying to accomplish, have you considered

right clicking a tab and choosing Move to Other View (then you will have 2 editing windows that you can visually compare the contents of 2 files in, right in one instance of Notepad++)

using the Compare plugin

Hello @vinc-cser, @Peterjones, and All,

Peter, you beat me to it by a few minutes ;-)). I was thinking about these two solutions :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+):.+

REPLACE \1

OR :

SEARCH :[^:\r\n]+$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Note that your solution :[^:]*$ does not work well when next line(s) does not contain any colon. For instance :

So, to prevent grabbing multiple lines , use either :

My second solution :[^:\r\n]+$ , which does not accept End of line chars before an end of line

Your solution, slightly modified, :[^:]*?$ , which looks for the nearest “end of line”  location !

@vinc-cser, beware that running twice, any of these regex S/R, would delete the part :PIFMYJD8, as well !

Best Regards

guy038

@PeterJones
Thank you very much, I’ll look into that.

Thanks so far and also for helping with the encoding.
I forgot to mention that regular lines can also be encoded using keywords and a dollar: $Time, $File. So a lone opening $ is not working.

hola y bienvenido a la notepad++ community, @Jorge-García-López

yes this is possible.

find what: ~(.*?)~
replace with: \\textbf{$1}
search mode: regular expression
wrap around: enabled

then hit replace all

this will change this text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ~Praesent~ condimentum, ligula et egestas pretium, magna nunc tincidunt mauris, at fermentum ~massa~ enim ut mi. Ut ac faucibus lacus. Donec vel est ~et~ justo posuere vulputate. Donec viverra id neque eget vehicula. Donec luctus pharetra odio vitae fringilla. Integer dictum hendrerit congue. ~Pellentesque~ maximus fermentum nulla sed pulvinar. Nulla nisi lorem, interdum ~non~ sagittis nec, posuere a massa. ~Sed~ vitae ex ac ~eros~ dapibus iaculis. Sed ~sit~ amet augue eu justo ultricies facilisis. Pellentesque rhoncus ipsum ligula, at rhoncus mi sollicitudin in.

to this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. \textbf{Praesent} condimentum, ligula et egestas pretium, magna nunc tincidunt mauris, at fermentum \textbf{massa} enim ut mi. Ut ac faucibus lacus. Donec vel est \textbf{et} justo posuere vulputate. Donec viverra id neque eget vehicula. Donec luctus pharetra odio vitae fringilla. Integer dictum hendrerit congue. \textbf{Pellentesque} maximus fermentum nulla sed pulvinar. Nulla nisi lorem, interdum \textbf{non} sagittis nec, posuere a massa. \textbf{Sed} vitae ex ac \textbf{eros} dapibus iaculis. Sed \textbf{sit} amet augue eu justo ultricies facilisis. Pellentesque rhoncus ipsum ligula, at rhoncus mi sollicitudin in.

Ok, I got it to work; I just asked a friend to try this…

The “problem” is, that there is no “Registry” style; at least visible in the UI, as it IS in the XML. The same is true with my friend -> the .reg highlighting works for him, because N++ recognizes them as “.ini” ;-)

Anyway, the solution for now (for me at least):
o) open the Style Configurator
o) change ANY color for any language and SAVE
o) optionally(?) restart N++
o) now “Registry” is visible in the Style Configurator & the highlighting works!!

further info: when comparing the “default” stylers.xml with the newly Notepad++ saved one, then there are several differences throughout the .xml
-> maybe it’s “damaged” somewhere?

@Christian-Major

what exactly is the problem?

Hello, @naachhilfe-aachen, @peterjones, @ekopalypse, and All,

May be, this post to @v-s-rawat ( and all the discussion, of course ) could be of interest for you !

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17223/why-does-appears-as-in-npp/5

You could, as well, download the Devanagari Google Noto font, for some tests ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @ronny-kerk, @andrecool-68, @meta-chuh, @ekopalypse, @alan-kilborn and All,

Here is a general method to list all files which contains word1 AND word2 AND word3 AND … wordN. The + of that solution is it should be fast enough and that you do not need to worry about regex problems, as the use of the (?s) syntax, look-arounds, and the order of the different words to match :-))

In addition, even if you were about to look for 3 expressions, simultaneously, with a regex, you should have to test the different ranges, below :

Word3........Word1..........Word2
Word3........Word2..........Word1
Word1........Word3..........Word2
Word2........Word3..........Word1
Word1........Word2..........Word3
Word2........Word1..........Word3

Rather fastidious, isn’t it ?

So, in short, the different steps, of that general method, are :

Search, in Normal mode, of each expression word1, word2,…,wordN and successive outputs in the Find result panel

Paste of all the contents of the Find result panel in a new tab

Use of a first regex S/R, in order to keep the absolute pathnames, only

Alphabetic sort of these pathnames

Use of a second regex S/R, to isolate the pathnames which are present N times

Use of a third regex S/R to delete all the other pathnames, which do not contain the N words simultaneously

OK, let’s go :

Open the Find ( Ctrl + F ) or the Find in Files dialog ( Ctrl + Shift + F )

Search, successively, for the expressions word1, word2 … wordN

Tick, if necessary, the Match whole word only and/or the Match case options

Tick the Wrap around option

Select, preferably, the Normal search mode

Click, either, on the Find All in All Opened Documents or the Find All button

=> After the N consecutive searches, you’ll get N searches in the Find result panel

In the Find resul panel, select all the text ( Ctrl + A ) and copy it in the clipboard ( Ctrl + C )

Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) and paste the clipboard’s contents ( Ctrl + V )

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Perform the following regex S/R, to keep, only, the different absolute pathnames

SEARCH (?-is)^(\t|Search).+\R|\x20\(\d+\x20hits?\)$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Now, let’s sort that text, with the option Search > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending

Add a manual line-break at the very end of that sorted list ( IMPORTANT )

SEARCH (^.+\R)\1{N-1} , where N represents the number of the searched expressions

REPLACE \1\r\n ( or \1\n if Unix files )

Tick the Wrap around option

Click on the Replace All button

So, for a search of any file, containing 4 expressions/words, just use the search regex (^.+\R)\1{3}

SEARCH ^.+\R(?!\R)|\R(?=\R)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around option

Click on the Replace All button

You’ll get, the list of all the absolute pathnames of files containing, at least once, all the words word1, word2 … wordN, in any order !

Of course, you may search for expressions more complicated than simple words, using the Regular expression search mode !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse and @PeterJones - a big BIG thanks for all your help and support.

Eko - your regex was marked up each block, both one and tow so it did the job but at the same time not.

PeterJones - your regex just nailed it and I’m soooo happy!! So impressed. You have know idea how much time I will save now using your regex. Previously I have search and deleted all of theses 1000 and 1000 rows manually.

You have made my day, week, year :) Thanks and thanks in million!

Cheers from happy Scandinavia guy :)

@Sean-Anigans

well it depends what exactly you want to do and which python version you wanna use and how flexible it should be and …

Npp does not have a builtin python interpreter but there are plugins which allow to execute python code
either natively like PythonScript or with a local installation like NppExec. If you want to use Python3 then I would argue that NppExec is the way to go.
NppExec provides a builtin console and a way to configure what needs to be executed.

@Nick-Felton

if you find a builtin language which, more or less, meets your needs you might
think about enhancing it by using a python script like discussed here.

Great, thanks for you fast help, now I’m happy :-)

@gayathri-priya, welcome to the Notepad++ Community forums.

You said:

I just want to select the name in each instance - just ABC and GBC.

Assuming that your data rendered accurately, and any the name is the first word on the line after a “header line” that starts with literal “Name” (with no spaces before)

This finds a line starting with name, then advances the search thru the EOL for that line, moves down to the next line, starts the match over, and matches just the first “word” characters (alphanumeric and underscore, for regex)

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FYI: here is some helpful information for finding out more about regular expressions, and for formatting posts in this forum (especially quoting data) so that we can fully understand what you’re trying to ask:

This forum is formatted using Markdown, with a help link buried on the little grey ? in the COMPOSE window/pane when writing your post. For more about how to use Markdown in this forum, please see @Scott-Sumner’s post in the “how to markdown code on this forum” topic, and my updates near the end. It is very important that you use these formatting tips – using single backtick marks around small snippets, and using code-quoting for pasting multiple lines from your example data files – because otherwise, the forum will change normal quotes ("") to curly “smart” quotes (“”), will change hyphens to dashes, will sometimes hide asterisks (or if your text is c:\folder\*.txt, it will show up as c:\folder*.txt, missing the backslash). If you want to clearly communicate your text data to us, you need to properly format it.

If you have further search-and-replace (“matching”, “marking”, “bookmarking”, regular expression, “regex”) needs, study this FAQ and the documentation it points to. Before asking a new regex question, understand that for future requests, many of us will expect you to show what data you have (exactly), what data you want (exactly), what regex you already tried (to show that you’re showing effort), why you thought that regex would work (to prove it wasn’t just something randomly typed), and what data you’re getting with an explanation of why that result is wrong. When you show that effort, you’ll see us bend over backward to get things working for you. If you need help formatting, see the paragraph above.

Please note that for all regex and related queries, it is best if you are explicit about what needs to match, and what shouldn’t match, and have multiple examples of both in your example dataset. Often, what shouldn’t match helps define the regular expression as much or more than what should match.

Maybe a possible cause is running N++ with multiple instances and closing the non-original instance last? I seem to recall that some settings get disabled for a second+ instance and if you close the ORIGINAL instance with any others still open, when you finally close those, their settings become your new default settings. Maybe something to check…

@guy038
Hey, thanks for the suggestions!

I was using v1.4.10.0 and updated to v1.4.11.0, but unfortunately the problem stayed.