Thank you, it worked well

Best Regards

If you don’t mind tripling the amount of typing, entering this in the “File name:” box and pressing Enter seems to achieve what you want:
*.*

It’s really just the “All types” mask, but quicker than choosing “All types (*.*)” from the dropdown.

Cheezy solution, I know…but I use it myself, rather often. :)

How about the keyboard shortcut for moving to the end of document (default: Ctrl+End)? Sure, you’d have to do it in each document, but it is only one (quick) action…

Menu bar -> Language -> INI file

You will probably get faster/better responses if you include more information about what you’re trying to do.

Title updated.

Hi Greg and Joe,

Joe, concerning the SEARCH regex, I suppose that you meant, ( with some more star meta-characters ! ) :

SEARCH = ^(.*?,.*?,.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),$

Then, with :

REPLACE = \1,\2\r\n\1,\3\r\n\1,\4\r\n\1,\5\r\n\1,\6\r\n\1,\7\r\n\1,\8\r\n\1,\9

it would, indeed, match the line, with 8 addresses, below

10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0,10.16.68.0,10.16.69.0,10.16.70.0,10.16.71.0,

and changed it into the block of 8 lines, below :

10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.68.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.69.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.70.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.71.0

Unfortunately, if a line, of Greg’s text, has less than eight addresses, at the end, your regex would not work :-((

But, thanks to you, you put me in the good direction and gave me an idea for getting all the work done, with ONE regex ONLY !!

So, I start with the example text, below, which contains all possible cases, from no address to 8 addresses, after the environment field, of each line :

10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0,10.16.68.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0,10.16.68.0,10.16.69.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0,10.16.68.0,10.16.69.0,10.16.70.0, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0,10.16.65.0,10.16.66.0,10.16.67.0,10.16.68.0,10.16.69.0,10.16.70.0,10.16.71.0,

The following S/R, with search mode = Regular expression, will realize everything, after clicking, ONCE only, on the Replace All button !!

SEARCH = (.*?,.*?,.*?,)(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?(?:(.*?),)?

REPLACE = \1(?2\2)\r\n(?3\1\3\r\n)(?4\1\4\r\n)(?5\1\5\r\n)(?6\1\6\r\n)(?7\1\7\r\n)(?8\1\8\r\n)(?9\1\9\r\n)

So, in one go, the resulting text would be :

10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod, 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.68.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.68.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.69.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.68.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.69.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.70.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.64.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.65.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.66.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.67.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.68.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.69.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.70.0 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,10.16.71.0

Et voilà ! Well, although I practised regexes, since many years, I, always, surprised by their incredible power !!

Notes :

If the original line is only 10.16.64.0/24,ABC,Prod,, without any address, after, the S/R just rewrites that line

In the search regex, the 8 parts (.*?) are groups from 2 to 9, each containing a possible address, which must be rewritten, in replacement

These 8 groups, followed by a comma, are embedded in an optional non-capturing group (?:(.*?),)? ( the group may be present [1] or absent [0] )

At the beginning, the part (.*?,.*?,.*?,) looks for the first three fields : network, datacenter and environment, followed by a comma

In replacement, the syntax (?#\1\#\r\n) is called a conditional replacement. It means that IF the group # exists, then it rewrites the group 1, followed by the group #, followed by the Windows EOL characters \r\n

At the beginning, the part \1(?2\2)\r\n writes, first, the group 1. Then it writes the group 2, ONLY IF it exists ( the first IPV4 address ), and, finally rewrites the Windows EOL characters \r\n

Remarks :

Contrary to my previous post, with this new S/R, there is no condition, any more, about the contents of fields 2 and 3 ! They could be, for instance : 10.16.64.0/24,99999,00000000,… :-)

Any possible leading indentation, of a line, is just kept, by this S/R !

You can click, either, on the Replace All button AND/OR on the Replace button, for a step by step replacement :-)

Cheers,

guy038

The TextFX plugin may help you.

See the TextFX menu -> TextFX Tools -> Sort lines case sensitive (at column)
for example.

What you do is make a column block (Alt + Left-click, then drag) covering the lines you want sorted and have the left side of the block be in the first column you want the sort to be based upon.

As others have pointed out it isn’t natively supported out of the box.

That being said it is kind of possible to do what you want with a plugin and/or script. You’d have to write a custom lexer to determine which parts are meant to be locked (depending on the format this may be very easy or complex). Specific Scintilla styles can be “locked”, though supposedly not perfect. The custom lexer could mark and color parts of the form as being locked vs unlocked.