@guy038 I use https://chat.openai.com/ to find different solution. ChatGPT learns everything. In about 5 seconds generates another 4 solutions.

I just put your regex as an example, and I ask ChatGPT to write me another 4 solution. Is the most inteligent tood ever. Artificial Inteligent.

:
Căutare: (?-s)(\G(?!^)|html">)((?!</a>).)*?\K-
Înlocuire: \x20

Căutare: (?-s)(\G(?!^)|html">)((?!</a>).)*?\K-
Înlocuire: \x20

Căutare: (?-s)(\G(?!^)|html">)((?!</a>).)*?\K-
Înlocuire: \x20

Căutare: (?-s)(\G(?!^)|html">)((?!</a>).)*?\K-
Înlocuire: \x20

@wonkawilly ,

Npp UI Spy plugin

That’s a great place to get the menuCmdId codes like 42024 that were mentioned – those are the command ID values for all the Notepad++ menu entries. (The type="2" codes, as described in the config files: macros section of the Online User Manual.)

because Scintilla commands are numerous

Scintilla commands are not included in Npp UI Spy plugin, since they aren’t UI menu commands, so no matter how numerous they are, you will find 0 of them in the Npp UI Spy plugin.

However, you can find the Scintilla numbers enumerated and briefly described in the Scintilla.iface which linked from that same section of the Online User Manual. And the Manual also links to the canonical sources for the menuCmdId values.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Regular expression match to the end not to selected:

@Danek-Szczepan said in Regular expression match to the end not to selected:

notepad++ select from <p><!-- (first line in file) (to last line in file that contains) --></p> How to fix it?

Change your usage of .* to .*?.

Learn more starting HERE.

Working, thank You !

@Alan-Kilborn Perfect!!!

Thanks for your help.

For the sake of anyone who might come across this in the future looking to solve a similar problem: The answer isn’t in the Style Configurator, it’s in the Preferences.
Screenshot 2023-06-22 001611.png
This is how my program was configured both before and after I fixed the problem. To fix it, I briefly selected a different option in this dialog and immediately reselected the original. I don’t know why this was claiming to be using the settings shown when they were only partially in effect. I would file a bug report, but I don’t know what I did to break this, so I can’t reproduce it.

@Terry-R said in Repeat lines and add empty lines after every line:

intention to be using these regexes independently

Yes, it was my intention to be using these regexes independently - so the ones provided @Mark-Olson are perfectly fine. It’s incredible how helpful and fast responding this community is - I haven’t seen that before. Thanks a lot to you all!

Suppose you want to find text in AcctNbr tags containing the numbers 48, 17, and 34 in any order. You could enumerate every possible ordering of those numbers, but that would become increasingly intractable as the number of things to be matched got larger (e.g., there are 24 possible orderings of four distinct things). This is where forward lookahead really shines.

(?-si)<AcctNbr>(?=(?:(?!</AcctNbr>).)*?17)(?=(?:(?!</AcctNbr>).)*?34)(?=(?:(?!</AcctNbr>).)*?48).*?</AcctNbr>

Try that out on the below text to see what I mean.

<AcctNbr>1 2 3 4</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>1 2 23 14</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>27</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>1234</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>34 18</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>48734</AcctNbr> <FooNbr>34 17 48</FooNbr> <!-- last three should match --> <AcctNbr>34 17 48</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>4817 34</AcctNbr> <AcctNbr>483417</AcctNbr>

NOTE: this method allows overlap between things to be matched, e.g., 348 would count for both 34 and 48. There is no efficient way to do this without making the regex much nastier.

@Alan-Kilborn , @PeterJones :

Thanks for weighing in. What I’m trying to do is a somewhat complicated regex find/replace on a file roughly represented as such:

[1st line containing data to be used in replacement elsewhere] […] [2nd line containing data to be used in replacement elsewhere] […] [3rd line containing data to be used in replacement elsewhere] […] [1st line where replacement will take place] […] [2nd line where replacement will take place] […] [3rd line where replacement will take place] […]

Each instance of […] is one or more lines of other data.

Starting at the beginning of the file, my FIND pattern will match from [1st line containing data to be used in replacement elsewhere] all the way through [1st line where replacement will take place], then insert data retrieved from the former into the latter, and also deleting all lines from start of file up to but not including [2nd line containing data to be used in replacement elsewhere] in the same process. I was hoping it would be simple to have it go on finding/replacing for all the remaining corresponding line pairs if I could make it use Wrap around and Replace All— though perhaps it wouldn’t, since some of the data within the target match areas will have changed between quasi-iterations — but guess I’ll concede defeat and make a loop. Thanks again!

@Paul-Wormer said in moving year in a date from the end to the front.:

Why not use \s

For the same reason that I hesitatingly recommended \h … because it opens up the match to more than what is wanted, a dangerous thing to do with regex.

@Paul-Wormer said in REGEX: a single line should contain each word in a paragraph.:

Maybe I’m missing the point

The point you may be missing is that the OP probably has a lot of data to act upon, making doing it “by hand” impractical.

@PeterJones Sorry, I don’t know there’s such a thing so I guess npp use some local font.
This solve my problem, thank you.

@Shahir-Afif said in Extract number between two strings:

Is there even a possibility to achieve this? I would greatly appreciate your inputs…

It certainly is possible, and you were on the right track.
Find What:(?-s).+?object_id=(.+?)sap_archive.+
Replace With:${1}

Should work for you.

If you want more information on what it is doing ask.

Terry

@PeterJones derived my answer from the discussion post… played around with the values in GUI section of the config and got it working. Thanks again for the assistance!

@drghty

By the way, you wrote “remove the last 5 lines from a text file”, but your example indicates removal of the last 5 characters from each line, so I assume the latter was correct.

@Mark-Olson

Ah, yes — my bad, and thanks much for the correction.

For @drghty , just to make sure you understand why Mark’s correction is potentially important, depending on the total content of your text file, my FIND pattern .{5}$ would also match up to five consecutive newline sequences, if your file has multiple consecutive newlines, if it does not include (?-s), or you don’t have . matches newline disabled.

@Tylor-J said in Search results editing:

I have the same issue.

If you have a nice, easy reproducible case, probably showing it here helps.

Hello, @kraddock and All,

For your first goal, I propose this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?!^).(?=.*.@)

REPLACE *

And you end up with this OUTPUT text :

e****1@gmail.com s***********l@icould.com t********l@yahoo.com

For your second goal, I propose this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?!^).(?=.*@)

REPLACE *

And you end up with this OUTPUT text :

e*****@gmail.com s************@icould.com t*********@yahoo.com

For each case, check the Regular expression search box !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn said in ftp migrate:

I’d guess NppFTP does as well.

Confirmed: there is a subfolder, %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\Config\NppFTP which contains multiple files as well as a Cache folder under that. If you want the settings, you just need to copy the %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\Config\NppFTP\NppFTP.xml to the new pc – the other files are just “certificates” and “known hosts” which will be automatically generated the first time you connect to a given site; and the Cache\ subfolder is just for holding the local copies of the remote files you are editing.

@Raj-Kadam

Please don’t create duplicate posts. Your other post should be removed, you can do that. Since your question is a follow on from this series of posts this is where you should ask further questions and get more answers.

The other post has no frame of reference (preceding posts) so cannot be answered by anyone without reading this series of posts.

But to answer your last question, it’s the %appdata%\Notepad++ that is the “normal” location for the config.xml. Please read the FAQ post What is %AppData% for more information.

Terry