Well @John-Drachenberg I’d try and grab the records in the group of 5 lines from the date added to the url line, combining them all into 1 line (so replacing CR/LF) with some other delimiter. I’d then create a "key at the start of the line, possibly the main part of the url, excluding any /folder names. Sort all the lines so that it would easily match up possible duplicate urls. To my mind a duplicate is any url where even if the /folder names/ portion was different would warrant further inspection.

At this point either eyeball the duplicates, or another regex could mark possible duplicates for further inspection.

Not sure if you actually want a regex to just remove duplicates in the original file, or would be happy just getting a list of possible duplicates which you could then check against the original and remove manually.

Terry

@Alain-Torrens

Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Editing (box on left) -> Caret Settings -> Width can get you a much more visible caret/cursor…but not everything you’ve requested.

@Rasmus-van-moortel

can someone please help me?

Nope, not without more detail than that…hint: show some before and (desired) after data.

@Terry-R said:

Note that I have used the “” character before some,

I think this is supposed to read:

Note that I have used the “\” character before some,

https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases

Thanks for the heads up. I hadn’t thought of that.

Maybe a “Recent News” thread? :)

Ok, I see you found it by yourself. Note that \d is equivalent to [0-9]. But you need to escape the "." to "\." or else it will match any character e.g. “0n234” would also match.

@Jose-Emilio-Osorio said:

@Scott-Sumner Use the mouse is good. But, I have more than 85000 lines in a file and it´s hard to drag the line to the last line. Any method to do this ?. Thanks for your help.

If it’s a one-shot deal then use two search/replaces in regular expression mode (Ctrl-G in the search/replace box)

Search for: ^
Replace with: 00000000
If you have leading spaces then use search for: ^ *

That’ll put eight zeroes at the front of all lines

The second search/replace is:
Search for: ^[0]+([0-9]{8})$
Replace with: \1

That skips over excess leading zeroes, saves the last eight digits, and the replace part is the saved value.

Now do one more pass which is to search for ^0{8}
This searches for lines that start with eight zeroes.

If you find any then either

There were blank lines in the file and we now have 00000000 there. That may or may not be desirable One of the lines had a number with 9 or more digits and will now have something like 00000000123456789 One of the lines had something other than a number and now has 00000000~whatever was on the line~

If you need to do this a lot then use sed. Google for GNU sed. It’s free. In sed the search/replaces would look like this

sed -r -e "s/^/00000000/" -e "s/^0+([0-9]{8})$/\1/" input-file.txt >output-file.txt

Then to check for errors

sed -r -n -e "/^0{8}/ { = ; p }" output-file.txt

This scans and for every line found that starts with eight zeroes it outputs the line number and then the offending line.

Ok, good to know! Thanks again guys for all the help!

@Claudia-Frank said:

@king-robbo

version control is used to track changes within files (mostly text files).
Most famous today is, I guess, git.
But if you have to ask what it is, means that you haven’t used it.
One other functionality Windows offers is “Previous version”
Right-click on a file and select properties - the last tab in the property window.
But this doesn’t, necessarily, give back the previous version but the version
of the last backup, which means it could have be changed multiple times afterwards.

So, all in all, this means , that, more or less, you can’t get the information what
has been changed in the file if you haven’t used one of the tools I mentioned.

Cheers

Hi Claudia
Many thanks for the reply I will have a search around on site here to gain some more info on what is available and what can be done
cheers

Claudia

@sign-in-smth

Perhaps you can figure out an easy way to create a session file that has the files you want to edit, then use the -opensession command line option to open them as a session in a new instance.

I should have read more carefully. Yes, I’m up with the latest version. Thank you very much.

@Jose-Emilio-Osorio

Maybe see this posting.

I see this question (not exactly the same, but close) is answered here. So apparently I just need to be patient. :) Thanks!

@PeterJones
Pretty good answer! I’d guess that is the closest i would get unless sending a request to add it in as a “feature”

Yeah, there are occasional outages on some or all of the notepad-plus-plus.org website. (it’s especially annoying when it’s the forum, so you cannot report the problem). They are generally fixed within a couple hours, in my experience.

I have another regex, this one is possibly a better option as I noticed all your instances of putting the ‘|’ character had either a number before or after.

So
Find what: \h(?=\d)|(?<=\d)\h
Replace with: \|

So as I said it will only deal with spaces that have a number on either side of it. Therefore it leaves the one alone in (as your example says) “Great Strides”

Terry

@PeterJones said:

You do realize…

LOL … amazing… (sigh)