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

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24464/faq-desk-v8-5-3-macros-and-run-menu-commands?_=1686863692352

or here:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24465/comment-on-faq-post-about-8-5-3-macros

Thank you both for responding. I have followed your advice and finally I have been able to do it using Excel, much easier than I imagined. Thanks again!

@AeOeAa said in Stopped remembering current session:

Hi

I’ve changed the location of my ++ (to the portableapps.com subdirectory) and … does not work. … Any guesses to what I’ve changed or need to change?

What needs to change? Stop using PortableApps dot com. They change applications in strange and unknown ways, and they don’t bother to test if their changes mess up the applications they are changing.

For some applications, PortableApps provide a service, since those apps don’t come with a pre-built portable version. But Notepad++ has had its own portable distribution for as long as I can remember (it has definitely had it since at least v6.0 in 2012, and the doLocalConf, per github history, has been around since before Notepad++ was added to github in 2009), so there is no reason to ever use PortableApps’s changed version of Notepad++. Delete that version, then go to notepad++'s official download at https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ and grab the most recent zipfile portable from the official location. The PortableApps version of Notepad++ does nothing but cause problems in this forum. Avoid it.

The official Notepad++ distributions, both installed and portable zipfile, both work correctly for “remember current session for next launch” and “enable session snapshot and periodic backup”.

Alan answered your question about the directory. If you want to learn more about Notepad++'s backup, and the improvements that can be had by using a properly-configured AutoSave Plugin, please read:

the User Manual entry on backup settings: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#backup our FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21782/faq-desk-periodic-backup-vs-autosave-plugin

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you very much!!!I will try

@m-r said in Speed Scroll:

I get this auto scroll ability in Firefox, Chrome, and Notetab l among others.

scroll.png

is there way to get it to work in Notepad++

No, see https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9887 and then https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1197/

Neither of those links present a strong argument for why autoscroll can’t or won’t be implemented but the answer so far has been “no, it won’t be implemented.”

FWIW, support for autoscroll would first need to be added to Scintilla.

@christian-cgi OK, solved it. Installed 64-Bit version and now everything works fine :-)

@Marc-Hankin said in Notepad++ says it cannot find the:

What can I or we do to get this fixed,

Probably best course of action is to open an issue, here: https://github.com/npp-plugins/pork2sausage