Hello, @rafał-kowalski,

My idea is to find, with a regex, a 00:00:00 time template, ONLY IF it’s followed, further on, by an other 00:00:00 time template and to store this second time template, in a group, for further use in replacement

To that purpose, we’ll use a positive look-ahead structure ( a condition which have to be true for an overall match, but which is never part of the final regex )

So, the regex S/R could be :

SEARCH (?s)\d\d:\d\d:\d\d(?=.+?(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d))

REPLACE $0 \1

Notes :

The first part, (?s), is a modifier, which means that the dot special character stands for any single character ( Standard or EOL ones )

Then the second part, \d\d:\d\d:\d\d, is the final text to find ( a 00:00::00 time template )

Now, the third part,(?=.........), is the positive look-ahead feature, which have to be true

Finally, the fourth part, .+?(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d), is the condition to respect :

.+? represents the shortest, non-null, range of any character, even split on several lines

(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d) is the nearest following 00:00:00 time template, which is stored as group 1, due to the surrounded parentheses

In replacement, we re-writes, first, the whole searched string ( $0 ), followed with a space character, and ended with the group 1 ( \1 ), which represents the second time template

REMARK :

It is important to point out that, when evaluating the condition .+?(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d, inside the look-ahead, the character position, used by the regex engine, is, finally, NOT moved and is still located, right after the last digit of the first time template ( the final regex to look for ), even if, somehow, it had to go ahead, till the end of the second 00:00:00 time template, in order to verify the condition )

So starting with your original text, below :

00:01:11 fdfdfdfdfdfdf 00:02:12 hjhgjjjjjjjjjjg 00:03:22 hgffggggggg 00:04:14 hjghhhghggg

This S/R would produce the text, below :

00:01:11 00:02:12 fdfdfdfdfdfdf 00:02:12 00:03:22 hjhgjjjjjjjjjjg 00:03:22 00:04:14 hgffggggggg 00:04:14 hjghhhghggg

Et voilà !

Best Regards,

guy038

This happens when files are marked as “read-only”, but in that case, you can not make changes because editing is disabled.

I have only a passing knowledge of Python, but since no one else has answered, I think Python or another scripting language would be the only way to do what you want in Notepad++ (and it would probably be fairly simple outside of Notepad++ also). Otherwise, it should be fairly trivial for a moderate spreadsheet user to make these changes in Excel, Open Office, or Google Docs - the hardest part would be importing and exporting the file in the correct format.

The only reason I’m not saying Notepad++ is not the tool for the job is that I hear that Notepad++ has the capability to run Python scripts (which I have never used). Otherwise, doing a Find/Replace for each label:value pair, would be rather clunky, and I’d recommend you direct your efforts towards finding a scripting or Excel solution to your problem.

Notepad++ can do some awesome things, but math is probably something it will (rightly) never natively be good at. Hope this helps.

If I’m understanding the question correctly, the answer is yes, you can set/change the folder location. I don’t use Dropbox, but for Google Drive, I have to set up the application on my PC, then, for example, my location is Google Drive\Development\Npp. If I wanted to change it to Google Drive\Npp or something else, as long as that folder exists on Google Drive, I can change it. Note that I’m currently on version 7.3.3.

There are big diferences between the two HTML options in Notepad++.

When Save As, then type HTML, Notepad++ leaves the file as plain text; it only adds the .html extension. The browser treats it as such and doesn’t add anything (e.g. new lines, paragraphs):

When Export to HTML (in Plugins), Notepad++ adds some HTML features to the plain text file. The page will show end of lines, paragraphs:

You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.

Notepad++, however, is not an HTML editor of choice. It only creates primitive HTML files. You need a lot of manual work to format your Web page. Personally, I use a dedicated HTML editor released in the 1990s: Arachnophilia. It has worked on Windows 95, and all the way to 64-bity Wimndows 10. It adds a lot of tags for me, plus the code is very clean.

Hello, @friemen-yellow,

You, probably, have the encoding auto-detection enabled. I advice you to disable that feature ( Settings > Preferences… > MISC > Autodetect character encoding ). So, on opening a Cyrillic encoded file, N++ should use, the standard ANSI encoding…

And, as your default character set, for NON-Unicode files, is, certainly, Windows-1251, your should see, immediately, the right Cyrillic characters, that you expect to :-))

To verify which is your default encoding configuration, for Non-Unicode files, just open the ASCII Insertion Panel ( Edit > Character Panel ). For Windows-1251, the uppercase Cyrillic characters lay, between code values 192 and 223 and the lowercase Cyrillic characters are between code values 224 and 255.

And if you change the default ANSI encoding for the Windows-1251 encoding ( Encoding > Character sets > Cyrillic > Windows-1251 ), the list, in the ASCII Insertion panel is updated but shoud remain unchanged !

You may also, for quick change to the Windows-1251 encoding, use a shortcut. Choose the menu option Settings > Shortcut Mapper… > Main Menu > Windows-1251 ( Line 213 ). I, personally, chose the Crtl + Alt+ E shortcut. Unfortunately, there’s a small bug, as the shortcut description overwrites the encoding zone, on the right part of the status bar ! So, the new current encoding is, generally, impossible to distinguish :-((

Best Regards,

guy038

PS :

In addition, if you’re using the option Settings > Preferences > Backup > Remember current session for next launch, the Windows-1251 encoding of your opened Cyillic files should be preserved, from one session to the next one, as it is clearly coded in the Session.xml configuration file ( encoding=“1251” ) if, of course, you did not close these files, before closing N++