Hello, @xerkon,

As you said :

I’d like to be able to copy 2 columns from a spreadsheet

I suppose that your selected bloc of cells ( 6 rows x 2 columns ), pasted in a new tab, within N++, is displayed, as below, where any number of the second column is simply separated, from its associated number of the first column, by a tabulation character ( \t ) !

1.25 0.25 2.5 0.5 3.25 1.25 4.5 1.5 5.25 2.25 6.5 2.75

If so, the simple regex S/R should do the job :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+?)\t(.+)

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1" val="\2"/> , with a space character, before the string val

OPTIONS Wrap around and Regular expression set

And you’ll get the text :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

If you prefer separate the two values by a tabulation character, just change the Replace box, as belwo :

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1"\tval="\2"/>

This time, you would obtain :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

Best Regards,

guy038

Interestingly, after a re-install, it’s working! Hooray!

I am rurally located, at the end of a long and old copper line, and I have a seriously flaky connection, so corrupted downloads happen a lot. Many MP3 downloads are totally messed up.

Now that this is working, I can look at N++ as a serious contender to replace UE, which was becoming very slow at startup.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

I don’t think you can complain about that not being user-friendly. Well, you can, but no one will listen

All I’m asking is that the documentation explains how it works. Then it becomes ‘user friendly’.

@Scott-Sumner
yes, the file is totally empty with a length of zero size. how it happens and why i don know. Even the file have size of 0 byte.

@Andrew-Ampers-Taylor

maybe this is of help

open the desired file in notepad++
in the menu bar, click on view > show symbol > show all characters
(this will show you all line endings like [CR][LF])

then, if you select edit > eol (end of line) conversion > windows (CR LF) from the menu bar, it will convert all paragraphs (line endings) to the windows format (or mac or linux if you choose so)

So, I should have googled before posting. I’m sorry - :( So if you are wondering you can go to — C:\Users\USER PROFILE HERE\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup —this works provided you didnt change the default setting (not too sure how didnt look for it)

If you did change it you can try to see the path --in notpad ++
*click on settings
*preferences
*backup
*should see the backup path
**this is where you can make adjustments to backups (how and where)

Hope this helps others

@guy038

Of course, one could take less of a “brute force” method than I initially did…and check the source code to arrive at the same 259 character limit:

RunDlg.cpp: INT_PTR CALLBACK RunDlg::run_dlgProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch (message) { //...snip... case WM_COMMAND : { switch (wParam) { //...snip... case IDOK : { TCHAR cmd[MAX_PATH]; ::GetDlgItemText(_hSelf, IDC_COMBO_RUN_PATH, cmd, MAX_PATH); WinDef.h: #define MAX_PATH 260

The GetDlgItemText function docs discuss the one-byte null terminator for C-style strings (thus 259+1=260) and the truncation that occurs when the limit is exceeded, so all is explained. :-D

solved. please delete my post.

Error
You are only allowed to edit posts for 180 second(s) after posting