Hello, Manorma Gautam,

Not very difficult !

From what you said, I deduced some points :

You want to keep the lines, which contain, either, the string vprn OR vpls

These two words begin by the two lowercase letters vp

These two words are always located at beginning of lines

All the lines, which do not contain these two words, must be deleted

So, follow the few steps, below :

Move back to the very beginning of your file ( Ctrl + Origin )

Open the Replace dialog (Ctrl + H )

In the Find what zone, type in (?-is)^(?!vp).+\R

Leave the Repalce with zone EMPTY

Uncheck, preferably, the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Et voilà !

NOTES :

The first part of the regex are in-line modifiers (?-is) to force the regex engine to consider the search :

In a non-insensitive way ( in the case you, previously, unchecked the March case option

With the dot symbol matching standard characters, exclusively, in the case you, previously, checked the . matches newline** option

The middle part ^(?!vp) looks, from beginning of each line, for a negative look-ahead ( a condition that must be true in order to satisfy the overall match but which is not part of the final regex. So, it verifies, for each line, if the exact string vp does NOT occur, at beginning of lines. If it’s the case :

The last part, of this regex, .+\R matches any non-null range of standard characters, from beginning of line, followed by any kind of EOL characters. That is to say any complete line, which does NOT begin with vp

All these complete lines are, of course, deleted, as the replacement part has been left EMPTY

REMARK : The important thing, to note, is that look-arounds ( look-behinds and look-aheads ) do NOT move the regex engine position of search. So, after evaluating the negative look-ahead (?!vp) , the regex engine position is, still, just before the first character of each line ! Therefore, the part .+ does match all the standard characters of each line !

Best Regards,

guy038

Quote from the Notepad++ website:

Note that the most of plugins (including Plugin Manager) are not yet available in x64

The Line Warp option fixed the problem for me, thanks for the help!

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Main_Page

Fair enough. However I’ve resolved it. Somewhere’s in the last few versions an option has been added to set files to Read only. I’ve never used this option before but yet during the update to 7.2.2 one of the files I use often had the flag set to read-only. That’s why my macro replacement program never worked. Once I cleared the flag my macro replacements are working fine again.

Thanks for the reply.

Do you mean how to change Window’s PATH variable from pointing to Python27 to Python35? That’s a Windows question, not a Notepad++ question, and one that your original post implied you knew how to do. And 30seconds on your favorite search engine will tell you: search for “change path WindowsN” (where N is 7, 8, or 10, as appropriate for your machine).

If you mean how to change the path in the command snippet I showed, instead of typing c:\path\to\python3.exe, you would type the actual path to your installation of python3. I cannot know where that is on your computer (though c:\python35\python.exe is my first guess)

If you mean something else, you’ll have to be more explicit. Because, once again, you haven’t said how you previously ran python27 from NPP, and other than a copy/paste of my text, haven’t shown what you’ve tried to get python35 to work.

Guys, it’s already implemented
Do a right click and use “copy” built-in function.
It’s different that “select all” and “copy” with accelerator key

Good enough reason /me thinks ;-) lol

@ibryant

Go to the View menu. Select “View Summary…”. In the resulting popup will be “Characters (without blanks)” and a number representing the same for your document.

The “blanks” it is referring to seems to be line-endings; it seems a better word could have been chosen rather than “blanks”.

Thank you very much!

@Marshall-Medoff

does this site have the equivalent of Karma or gold?

I’m not really sure how the reddit system works. The reputation here doesn’t really have much value, I think mostly just to weed out spam accounts.