@jeff-bowles ,

FYI: We in the Forum cannot change the codebase, and the Forum is not the official feature request location.

That said, even if you were to create a feature request in the official location (as described in the FAQ), I doubt it would be implemented. The UDL has not had any significant/meaningful changes in years. (The lack of UDL development is my biggest complaint about Notepad++, because there have been critical known issues, like not handling unicode characters, not allowing pattern matches rather than literals in the keywords and folding, and the other limitations in folding: I’m sure these limitations are chasing away many users, who would actually use Notepad++ if those were fixed/implemented. My long-term hope is that someone will take it upon themselves to write “UDL 3.0” as a plugin-lexer, and re-implement it from the ground up with the modern features, but that’s a huge ask, and something that I don’t yet have the skills or bandwidth to do [and aren’t likely to in the next few years])

@jdecrypted ,

See the FAQ: How do I use Notepad++ to … Convert My Text.

Please note: that FAQ was written to explain both compiling text (which does not appear to be what you want) and converting text in-place (which does appear to be what you want). So don’t read the title including the word “Compile” and complain that it’s not answering your full question. It does, if you read the whole FAQ entry.

It appears a fix is made (but not yet released of course).

I think I found the culprit - I had network paths in my project panel pointing to a NAS drive that is currently unavailable (or maybe damaged). Whenever I activate my project panel I can work but when notepad++ restarts it “santity checks” all documents in the project list and I think it just takes ages because the timeout for each item is just too long and adds up to the app hanging.

While I find sanity checking of the paths useful, it would be really good if this task could be done in a separate thread that doesn’t block the UI.

@ahmad-faisal-ahmad-zaki

The answer is yes, there are ways to retain or copy only records in a date range (although I suppose there are date representations that would make it cumbersome).

If there’s exactly one date format used by SQL someone else may be able to reply with details. Otherwise, see the FAQ and provide representative sample data.

Also, I suppose you’re aware that data extracted from a db can undergo date filtering at extraction time.

@phantom-dviper

If the layout of your data is as you posted, a regex like: (?<=\:).{10,}
find passwords with 10 or more characters.
Use the mark tab from the find dialog and bookmark the lines when searching.
Then select the desired function from the Search->Bookmark menu.

@václav-trunec said in Replacing specific text from document A to B:

If I do this, the document will not be usable for our developers, since it also moves the { and } characters, determining the end of a translation key. Is there a way to skip this?

If you follow Guy’s full instructions, you will see that he added a “key” (the extra text) which will allow his two different sorts to undo each other: he sorts on that “key”, and then in the end, it re-sorts back to the original order. As Guy said, “The order of lines, in Document E, should be identical to the Document B order” after his last step.

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Alternatively, I recently published a script in a similar discussion, which will allow you set up pairs of English/OtherLanguage translation strings (or, in your case, OtherLanguage-to-English). If you follow the instructions in that post, but use the original/Czech as the left side of the translation dictionary and the translated/English as the right side, it should work.

So, instead of using the example from that discussion:

translation = { r'"JJIS number:"': r'"د JJIS شمیره:"', r'"Choose one"': r'"یو يې غوره کړئ"', r'"Social Security number:"': r'"د ټولنیز مصؤنیت لمبر:"', r'"State ID \(SID\):"': r'"د ایالت ID \(SID\):"' }

… you would use something like …

translation = { r'Najděte upozornění patřící konkrétnímu alertu podle jeho názvu': r'Find the alert belonging to a specific alert by its name.', r'Hledat podle nazvu alertu': r'Search by alert name' }

(remembering to end every pair except the last one with a comma

@alan-kilborn I have just tried your work. Fantastic!!! Thank you very much for your time!!! Hope life is generous with you, as much as you are with strangers! Thank you again!

@ekopalypse

@ekopalypse said in UDL Code folding on keyword:

(I’m not sure if it means the same as “half the rent,” as we say in Germany).

We don’t use that phrase, but I understand the analogy as being similar. :)

As you point out, it doesn’t work as one expects, and is hard to diagnose if it doesn’t at least follow the rules as laid out in documentation, which is why it was so hard to fix, and how you figured it out makes you more of a magician. :)

Either way, thanks again, and now I need to make an updated package and let your users know we have gotten it fixed. It was the one glaring shortcoming to making it similar to the dBASE IDE editor, which is based on SCITE also.

@nolan-m ,

The Notepad++ settings only affects Notepad++, not all of Windows. Explorer’s New File creation is completely separate from Notepad++.

If you use Notepad++ File > New or equivalent, it will use the setting you mentioned.

I should have added to my previous post:

Forget the bookmarking idea entirely; it isn’t useful to the task at hand.

@alimirzaei5778 said in How to calculate average for XML attributes which their value equal to zero using the before and after values:

Any help would be appreciated.

Learn a programming language and how to program.

Seriously, that’s the way.

@jason-sederquist said in Trouble searching and finding "same" but unique strings...:

I cannot place images in the compose box, nor reply to YOUR post…

When replying to a post, you normally either select something in the post you replying to (you’ll see some reference in my one to some text in yours) or just click on the “reply” text (in red) bottom left of the post you are replying to.

To insert an image, I would put it in my clipboard (so on Windows Ctrl-C), then in the compose window Ctrl-V and it inserts a temporary link. It will then quickly upload that image which will show when the post is “submitted”.

Good thing you were able to sort yourself out anyways. We are here if things get more complicated for you, so don’t hesitate. But if posting examples please do follow the guidelines. We find most of the issues solving people’s problems is getting the initial examples right.

Terry

@freshenstein said in Delete everything after the twelth character in a line with other lines of text that need to be left alone:

Is there a way to add to this code that tells it to only look for lines that start with “thing”+number and then delete everything after 12 characters?

Possibly as long as the number is a consistent length, you would change your formula to something like ^(thing \d{6}). Doing it this way you need to limit to an exact character count, so the number must ALWAYS be 6 characters long.

Alternatively something like ^(thing \d+) will work. So it works up until the end of the number. This could be 12 characters, or more or less. The \d+ means as many digits that are together, but must be at least 1.

Terry

PS understand I’m only editing the first part of your regular expression. It’s up to you to add in the “rest of the line” or whatever else you intend to do.

@guy038
Thank you so much*It’s perfect :)

Hello, @alimirzaei5778, @neil-schipper, @terry-r, @alan-kilborn and All,

We can even speed up the search regex process with this syntax :

(?-is)^sunday.+\R.+\R(?:(?! 1112).+\R){4,}A=.+\R?

Indeed, if several consecutive blocks, without the string \x201112 at beginning of lines , it will select all these blocks, in one go !

You could say why does it work that way ? Well, the regex part (?:(?! 1112).+\R){4,} finds any consecutive range of lines which do not begin with \x201112

And it’s particularly the case of the lines :

Beginning with Sunday

Beginning with Int

Beginning with A=

Luckily, this accumulation of matched lines stops as soon at it meets a line beginning with \x201112. But, as it must also satisfy the end of the regex A=.+\R?, the regex engine is forced to backtrack 3 lines before ( by decreasing the quantifier of 3 ( one at a time ), in order to match the last line of the previous block, beginning with A= !

Best Regards,

guy038

@alan-kilborn Perfect. Thanks ever so much!

The response to the OP should have been “Center to what?”. The number of characters in a line in Notepad++ has practically a very high limit. As such there can be no concept of centering to a frame or a page.

If the OP meant to have the text centered when the file was printed, then that is something different, and probably a desirable feature to have even in a text editor.

Funny story. Shortly after I had released my GotoLineCol plugin, the first two issues I received were that the Column Position (either by Character or Byte) field in the plugin side panel had a limit of only 5-digits! See here: Issue #1, Issue #2.

I couldn’t have anticipated that people were dealing with files having lines longer than 99,999 characters. To resolve the issues, I increased the field length in the plugin panel to allow up to 8 digits. The fix took only a few minutes. But to test it, I had to prepare a file with at least a single line having more than 350,000 characters. This part took me significantly longer time.

@terry-r This was very helpful, and worked perfectly. I was able to use and also modify your solution to remove the ending time aswell. Really cool the stuff you can do with N++

@zarate-petery

As a starting point, this regex matches all complete lines that do contain PACKS_1: ^.*?PACKS_1.*?$\R

You can use it in a Replace All operation with Replace field completely empty; this would delete all these lines.

This would meet the overall need with your sample data, but possibly not all of your real world data.