@caramadra

FIND = \R
REPLACE = $0$0
SEARCH MODE = regular expression
REPLACE ALL

This can be recorded as a macro and assigned to a keyboard shortcut for easy use.

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Sorry to have asked I have just found it is very easy to do with the search all function and then cut and paste the results

@Terry-R thanks terry and others for the info much appreciate. long life and good health to you all.

@Andrey-Fedorchuk ,

UDL wasn’t really intended for “phrases”; it was meant as a simple keyword/operator highlighter. In certain fields (the folding fields and the delimiter fields), you can put double-quotes around phrases so that the space will be part of the folding-trigger or delimiter… but I don’t know of a way that allows embedding quotes inside a multi-word phrase. Sorry.

You might want to look into the AnalysePlugin – it’s reason for existing is to make navigating/searching/highlighting large logfiles easier.

Alternately, the EnhanceAnyLexer will allow you to change the foreground color of strings matching regexes, so if you have an OpenWRT UDL, then making a [OpenWRT] section in the EnhanceAnyLexer config will allow you to define regex-based rules, which could use a regex like ^Successful ping of the target.*$ for matching any line starting with those… or if you want only the exact, then do the exact line.

@Marc-Surprenant said in Find and Replace Window:

It helps but i would still like it bigger

There is a feature request already in place for this. You can see it HERE and if you want to add your thoughts there, developers will see that multiple people want this.

@Livieishere

I presume you didn’t create this file, but rather were given it or obtained it from somewhere.

I don’t know much about css, but I’d presume that it isn’t required to have line-ending characters.

@Christophe-MERCEY

two alternatives are
a) using NppExec and its option to Execute this script when Notepad++ starts
or
b) a scripting language plugin like PythonScript

@VenomNihil said in Replace variable chain of text then adding pattern before and after:

the ^ doesn’t work with the spacing but I supposed is because I posted a screenshot. But just using " item " instead does the job.

Yes, it is tough to work from a screenshot; that’s why we have suggestions to not post them for this type of problem, or to post both a screenshot and the literal text. Apparently we failed to noticed this part of your original posting:

cc43d5be-7554-4e41-b60e-93ed8aed5213-image.png

@Michael-Vincent - cool, a nice one, thx.

@Harrison-Costas ,

I said,

quite a few hours before I could check my home machine

I just checked. According to the registry Key section I mentioned, the UninstallString is "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\uninstall.exe" and QuietUninstallString is "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\uninstall.exe" /S

See FAQ entry HERE.

@Swati-Rohatgi
There is no formal method guaranteed to work everytime.

However you may want to search the forum for helpful hints that users have identified to make the process as painless as possible. Try this post as a starting point.

Terry

@ADEYINKA-ADEWOYIN ,

You do realize that @Alan-Kilborn already answered that question for you: the regex he showed worked for him. If it doesn’t work for you, you will have to provide more details , because that regex will work to delete the first line of the files. He even asked you to provide more details to explain how the given regex doesn’t work for you.

You really need to read this FAQ and see the referenes below.

That said, can be simplified: a large part of the original expression was only needed because the original post wanted to delete line#15, not line#1. To delete the first line is simpler: FIND = (?-s)\A(^.*$\R?), REPLACE is empty, and SEARCH MODE must be REGULAR EXPRESSION.

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@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you so much. It worked. I was able to beautify the txt like I wanted after applying your solution with extended expressions.

I was also looking for this. Thanks @PeterJones !

@Leahnn-Rey ,

Use “Folding in code 2 style (separators needed)” [FiC2] instead of “Folding in code 1 style” [FiC1].

The FiC2 requires spaces or newlines before and after the open, middle, and close keywords, whereas the FiC1 does not.

Generally, FiC1 should be used for things like { and } as block-markers to fold on, whereas FiC2 is useful for words.

Hi Vitalii,

cool things are out there, thanks you for your hints.
I even didn’t know ctags.

Klaus

@PeterJones Thanks so much! This is exactly what I wanted. Appreciate the swift response.

@kendall-loftin ,

You can use negative lookbehinds to guarantee that “the text before house is not future and is not tech and is not bass”:

FIND = (?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house Search Mode = Regular expression

You can combine that with your whole line matcher, which used to be something like (?-s)^.*house.*$ to become:

FIND = (?-s)^.*(?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house.*$

… that will then match the whole line, not just the individual “house” on that line

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