Hello friends
So one year later I had to do the same replacements, and found that the original script did not work anymore (Same error as reported by @guy038 ). Something must have changed in Notepad++, Python or somewhere else, because the first time it worked fine.

Anyway, I updated the code as suggested by @Alan-Kilborn and it worked correctly.
Cheers everyone

Hello @floyddebarber, @peterjones and All,

An alternative solution would be :

SEARCH (?-i)(?<=\.)\h*(?=\u\u)

REPLACE \r\n

So, for instance, from this INPUT text :

MÜLLER 6 - Blahblah. SMITH 5 - Asdds. Asdsd.DI CARLO 8,5 - And. Maybe even. Multiple. Sentences here.

you would get the OUTPUT text :

MÜLLER 6 - Blahblah. SMITH 5 - Asdds. Asdsd. DI CARLO 8,5 - And. Maybe even. Multiple. Sentences here.

Notes :

This regex searches a range of horizontal blank chars ( \x20, \x09 or \x85 ), possibly null, but ONLY IF :

It is preceded with a literal full period due to the positive look-behind (?<=\.)

It is followed with two upper-case letters, accentuated or not, due to the positive look-around (?=\u\u)

And, in replacement, this range is just replaced by a Windows line-break ( \r\n ) ( Use \n only if working on Unix files )

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ailothaen said in Not having the same session depending on how I open notepad++:

It looks I have two different installations on my PC:

The second “installation” running from the D: drive is very likely a “portable” version. This is not actually installed, rather just unzipped into any folder of choice. You might want to consider leaving it, although “upgrading” it to a later portable version might be preferable as quite a few enhancements and bug fixes since the 7.6 version.

Often the seasoned forum members will have multiple versions installed. Reasons are:

Identifying whether a recent enhancement introduced a bug Helping out a poster with their issue, this means not changing an already highly customised installed version just for a test Being able to separately customise the second version for different tasking possibly many other reasons as well

If you do consider keeping an installed version AND the portable version then code the shortcuts with additional text so you know which version you are using. Also look at having different visual settings such as colourisation of text, font differences, etc.

Terry

@david-union

Settings > Preferences > General > Toolbar = Standard Icons: small

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#general

@PeterJones said in Regex: How can I split lines from text at every 31 words:

[\w’’]+\W+

THANKS. super, so I update my answer:

FIND: ([\w'’"]+\W+){31}
REPLACE BY: $0\r\n

OR

FIND: ([\w'’"]+\W+){31}\K
REPLACE BY: \r\n

…

unless the checkbox to the right of Find Next is confusing you.

The checkbox to the right of Find Next is the “2 find buttons mode” – you can see that by hovering over the right checkbox, as shown in the screenshot below (the speech bubble is seen when you hover over the checkbox with your mouse). The checkbox to the left of “In Selection” is the “In Selection” checkbox (pointed to by the red arrow I added to my screenshot).
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@Marc-Grossman said in Looking for ways to add highlighting(Style occurrence of...):

“Double marking” text patterns with “Purple” then “Yellow” creates “Red”
As a result, I had Six colors even if there were only five selections provided by the application.

Ah, yes, that can be done.
And you could create a macro so that it could be done in a single step.
Here’s a thread that, in its more-recent posts, tells you a lot about colors, maybe it has some relevant information for you:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18157/how-to-set-find-background-colour

@PeterJones Thanks, the Style Config fixed the issue

I agree with @Terry-R that it is working fine in 8.1.4

Thank you all for your answers!

It doesn’t run well. Thoose images are token without change the toolbar but only the layout:
Standard Toolbar:
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Fluent UI:
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There are 5 left icons, The next 8 are shown on lefter buttons, and 5 buttons hava casual icons.

The buttons are in the same position, only the icon is wrong (you can see it by the tooltip).

Thank you
Lucio

The uninstall without saving custom settings and then reinstall seems to have worked. My normal selecting highlighting appears to be back.

Thanks for the help.

@Nathan-Walser said in Running a code through notepad++:

If I click the run button in notepad

Have you tried View, View Current File in, and then select one of the browsers?

Terry

@AliciaKeller ,

Isn’t that big long section also “between separators”? How so you tell the difference?

What do you want done after it’s matched? Run it all together? Put it on separate lines, one line for each field? Put it between new separators? Something else?

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

@JS-Developer

Glad the provided regex worked for you. If you frequently run into this kind of issues, I would suggest you to read the regex guide in the FAQ section of this forum and start learning how to develop your own solutions. It could be hard but rewarding.

@Master-Of-Attack said in whenever i color something, save, close the app and open the same thing again all the colors are gone!!:

is there really no way to save it? maybe even something like a plugin

If you are willing to use the PythonScript plugin I present a script here for doing it: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46533

@jeffvb9 said in Removing text from middle of line of text:

How can I accomplish this?

I don’t see any before/after difference…?
But there’s probably something there that this site consumed.
Use the </> in the compose toolbar to format your data.

@Gaetan-Doutriaux

something like that should do the job

find: .{120}
replace: $0\r\n

@PeterJones thank you!