@guy038 said in How to replace characters over certain number?:

(?-s).{55}\K.+

Thank you very much, everything worked great. Tidy lists please the users :-)

r 8 unknown y@y 4 unknown then .ro

r********y@y****.ro

How would i do this

You would apply the knowledge you learned from my previous freebie solution and try to generalize it. Since . obviously matched a single character in my previous answer, using a . in your new expression anyplace you want it to match a single unknown character would work.

(?i-s)\br........y@y....\.ro

The (?i-s) says “be case insensitive; don’t let . match newline” The \b says “match a word boundary” (hence requiring the r at the - beginning of the email, rather than just in the middle) Every . means “one character” – and because of the earlier option, it actually means “one character (not including newlines)” the \. means “match a literal dot character” – I changed to this because that will require four unknowns followed by a literal dot; y.....ro would work for that portion of the regex as well, but it would also match y12345ro, which you don’t want, so I made it more specific.

BTW: this is your last freebie from me. Until you start showing some effort and a willingness to learn, I cannot help you any further.

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Hello, @stealthy, @terry-R and All,

@stealthy, a simple solution would be to use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)\A.*\R\K.*

REPLACE 0

Now, we can generalize, using the generic regex S/R below, in order to replace the line N, of EACH file, with the RR regex replacement expression :

SEARCH (?-s)\A(?:.*\R){N-1}\K.*

REPLACE RR

Note that, if we want to replace the first line, in EACH file => N - 1 = 0. So, simply use the regex S/R : (?-s)\A.* !

Best Regards

guy038

@mpheath ,

After going over a lot of stuff, including reexamining the FunctionList FAQ, I have to agree with you, that at present, I may need to work with the parser, as is. I must have missed that ‘embedded comments’ section, or glossed over it, or didn’t relate it to the kind of comments we do as the example seemed to be an example of excessive use of inline ‘block’ comment style for an inline comment. That may be what threw me as regards that example in the FAQ.

Moving the opening class declaration line after any block comments immediately following it, fixes the problem completely, with my recent testing. It appears, however, that as I discovered before, line comments inside a class taking up a whole line, or after code, inside a class/endclass block does indeed work as it should.

So I guess until I get up to speed with C++ and take a crack at a fix for the block comments giving problems inside a class/endclass code block, block comments will have to be avoided.

I do, however, feel that the simple fix for this, should be just allowing a longer string other than \{ and \} symbol characters would be a proper fix, since being able to use class and endclass in the open/close symbole elements, it would be part of the actual parser demarcation ability to know where a class starts and ends, rather than having to use regex to find all the way to the end like this regex had to do to be able to outline the structure of the class. For now, the crisis is averted until I can revisit this issue, hopefully with some C++ skills at a later date. :)

@Sylvester-Bullitt ,

When I try to ping the server using ? > Update Notepad++, I don’t get a server timeout.

There may have been temporary network routing problems, or a temporary website problem. You might want to try again.

If it’s still having that problem, maybe you have to tell Notepad++ about a proxy between your computer and the internet – ? > Set Updater Proxy…

@The-Epic ,

Sorry. That feature doesn’t exist in Notepad++. For language-specific things like that, the developer usually relies on someone creating a plugin that handles language-specific tasks (like the abundance of plugins that add features for XML, HTML, JSON, and the like). But I don’t know of any plugin directed at adding features for YAML.

If you had one of the scripting plugins (like PythonScript, but there are other scripting plugins also available), you could register a function that watches for keystrokes, and does something like “if the RETURN key is hit, and the current line starts with spaces then -, then make the new line start with the same indentation and -”

@guy038 said in Mark all .pdf files except zusammenfassung.pdf using RegEx:

Hello, @andreas-soraru and All,

From your title, I would say :

Open your file in N++

Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M )

Untick all box options

SEARCH (?xi-s) ^ (?! .* zusammenfassung.pdf ) .* \b \S+ \. pdf \b

Check the Bookmark line and the Wrap around options

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Mark All button

Then, either :

Click on the Copy Marked Text button

Click on the Search > Bookmark > Copy Bookmarked Lines

Open a new tab

Paste the .pdf filenames or the complete lines in this new tab

Best Regards

guy038

One option could be to temporarily change the font size or zoom level of the document so that the bookmarked line fits at the top of the screen when you jump to it. You can do this by using the zoom in/out feature or changing the font size. After you have finished reviewing the bookmarked line, you can return the font size or zoom level back to its original setting.

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh, you’re right! Thanks again!

@Alan-Kilborn I just changed the “</Placemark” statement to “</SchemaData></ExtendedData”, and the expression works. Don’t know exactly why.

I wonder why it is some people lose their mental acuity, while others don’t? I am an extremely serious hiker and have remained extremely strong with high endurance. If I had to make a choice, I think that I would rather lose the mental part, people understand it when you tell them that it’s because your old.

Again, Thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn
thanks!, I use line operations so much my first time seeing it

@Gilad-Tiomkin ,

The menubar font size isn’t configurable inside Notepad++ – it uses your global Windows font size settings. Since you are on Wine, not Windows, you will have to look into Wine documentation for how to change the “Windows” font sizes in Wine.

@guy038

Awesome! Now, I have more solutions to the future problems at my disposal. Thanks!

@Detlev-Hochmuth ,
Hmm…for one thing, it doesn’t look like you have the double-click hack setup to enable NPP to open files that way in either of those Debug info readouts. Apparently you got it fixed by going to your full version, and that’s nice, but that doesn’t answer the question of why you expected double clicking a file (in File Explorer presumably) to open it in NPP.

@Till-Ehrich ,

I started replying to the deleted post, so I saw you had problems.

The search mode must be regular expression. Sorry that I forgot to say that.

And since I tested with “replace all”, I forgot to mention that with the \K, it will only work with Replace All. So if you tried one-replace-at-a-time, then it won’t replace anything.

Alternatively, you could use three groups instead of two, and get rid of the \K, so that it could work one-at-a-time.

FIND = (?-s)^(.*? \(Acc\))\r\n(\w+) - (.*)
REPLACE = $1; $2; $3
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

converts

MSCI EM USD (Acc) IE00BTJRMP35 - Xtrackers MSCI World Health Care USD (Acc) IE00BM67HK77 - Xtrackers AI & Big Data USD (Acc) IE00BGV5VN51 - Xtrackers

into

MSCI EM USD (Acc); IE00BTJRMP35; Xtrackers MSCI World Health Care USD (Acc); IE00BM67HK77; Xtrackers AI & Big Data USD (Acc); IE00BGV5VN51; Xtrackers

@Terry-R ,
Thanks, and you’re right, I learn more, by trying. I had started to use regex101.com, but for the reason you mention, some of the boost stuff throws an error in it. I think I may have used a bad character or something when it threw the error, so I went to the NPP S/R box to try out what I had. Thanks for the reasoning behind the failure. I had tried a \h, but that failed also, so…at least I have another tool in the box to understand the next time I try. :)

Hello, @bahaa-eddin-ツ, @peterjones and All,

The solution already provided by @peterjones is the right one and my solution would be identical or very similar !

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones
feeling idiot…
thanks again Peter

@Dave92F1,

I was hoping the NP++ community would have experience with this, since I gather that NP++_on_Wine is sort of the “official” way to run NP++ on Linux.

Notepad++ is an application for Windows ; no other usage is official nor even “official”. If you can get it to work in another environment (like Wine), then lucky you.

Elsewhere I’ve been advised that “the only way” to do this is to take ownership of the file, edit it, then restore ownership back to root. I’m not sure if that’s practical (I’d have to find a way to do it in a script).

I am not a linux-sudo expert, but the sudo permissions should be sufficient to run a script that changes the owner of a file, makes a change, then changes it back – at least, I cannot imagine how that wouldn’t work, since root (and thus sudo) has the ability to change permissions on any file. I mean, if I’ve understood correctly, the script could probably be as simple as

sudo chown username /etc/rc.local notepad-plus-plus /etc/rc.local sudo chown root /etc/rc.local

Do not take my word as “golden” or “authoritative” or “official” on this. I’ve never done such a thing. And there are probably security implications of changing the owner, even temporarily.

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edit: Ooh, another idea: copy it to a temp file before changing permission, so no one else ever has permission on the real file

sudo cp /etc/rc.local /tmp/editable.rc.local sudo chown username /tmp/editable.rc.local notepad-plus-plus /tmp/editable.rc.local sudo chown root /tmp/editable.rc.local cp /tmp/editable.rc.local /etc/rc.local

That might be better, though there are probably still security considerations on that. Using a meaningless/random tmpfile name would probably be better than /tmp/editable.rc.local, so that it’s not obvious to an outsider watching the /tmp filestructure that the file is being used for editing rc.local

@PeterJones

I figured it out thanks to your help. Your previous mentioned the file path the sessions file was referencing. On my old computer my username was “user” while on my new computer its “John” The session file has “user” referenced and not "John so I simply made a new directory where the session file was referencing that had my old notepad++ folder. That seemed to do the trick. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.