@PeterJones , @guy038

I have tested your solutions and both work fine. However, for futher work I will use probably the solution from @guy038 because it is a little bit faster.
Thank you very very much for your help.

Tested - NP v.7.9.3 on Win10, Win7

@Mamoune-Zerhouni-faiz said in Prb multiple words in the sentence:

Sorry to have exaggerated but please I don’t understand anything about Notepad++ commands
I just discovered another error ‘double repeated words’ in sentences, such as:

Well, possibly you need to start learning about regular expressions as we cannot continue to give you the answer every time without you at least trying first. In our FAQ section we have a post on REGEX (regular expressions). Try to learn some of the basics which is the best starting point. If you do try, but fail, show us what you have attempted. You will get more offers of help if you at least try.

Your latest problem with “double repeated words” was actually more complex than I initially thought hence the time taken to get back to you with a possible solution. Again it is a regular expression so search mode MUST be “regular expression”. Using the Replace function we have:
Find What:\b(\w+)(?=\W(\w+)\W\1\W\2)(\W)(\w+)\W\1\W\2
Replace With:\1\3\4

To give a bit of a description:
We look for an entire word (\b before the \w+ forces that). At this point we look ahead (?= is a lookahead, this does not actually consume any characters). The lookahead looks for a non word character (\W which can be a space, comma etc) a 2nd word, then another non-word character and the 1st word again followed by a non-word character and the 2nd word. If none of this is true, then the regex fails with the first word and proceeds to the next word, consuming it and repeats the lookahead. Once the lookahead is true then we proceed with actually consuming the 2nd word and the duplicates. In this instance I only look for 1 duplicate as that’s what your example suggests. If more than 1 duplicate exists, then run the regex again until no more duplicates exist.

Terry

PS when we ask that examples be entered using the </> button please follow that request. It is important you supply both before and after views of the data in the black boxes so that we know the data can be trusted as correct and not altered by the posting engine. In this case the example you supplied might not have been affected but that’s not always the case.

@David-Abrahams-0 ,

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It works as expected for me.

Could you show your UDL (if there isn’t proprietary/private/sensitive information contained in the definition)? (You could even Export… the UDL, and then paste the contents of that exported XML file into your reply)

Also, it’s always good to post the ? menu’s Debug Info (copy/paste) when asking for help that might end up being version-dependent.

@guy038 said in [How do I merge two or more consecutive lines into one?]

If you prefer, you may send it to me, by e-mail. Here is my temporary e-mail address :

BR

guy038

Just sent it to the above address.

Thank you!

Thank you very much! It works!

Merci encore :)

@Alan-Kilborn thank you, good sir, your belief really helped me!
Now it’s in Preferences > Margins/Border/Edge > Vertical Edge Settings

@PeterJones said in Add a new name before and after names that start with a capital letter:

use (?-is) at the beginning

My rule of thumb is becoming to type that, first thing after calling up the Find window, when I know I’m doing regex.

I can always modify it later, but it is a good starting point.
The discussion in this thread about case bears that out.

@Maria-Urbina

A bit of a leap here, in understanding your question, but I’m guessing maybe you want to see what you’ve composed in a browser window?

If so, have a look at the View menu, specifically the View Current File in menu item.

@0YouKnow0 ,

It’s great that you have a starting regex that works for the simple use case; thanks for sharing it, as it will make moving you forward to the end goal much easier.

Recently, our super regex guru @guy038 published a post that gives a “generic” regex for searching and replacing for a particular expression, between START and END tags.

Your search expression would be the FR in the generic, and your replacement expression would be the RR. Depending on how specific you want your START and END to be, I would probably pick a BSR = > and ESR = </, so that it will look for anything that matches your FR that’s between a > at the end of a tag and an </ at the beginning of the end tag. The generic expression was designed to disallow having the BSR or ESR inside the matched, so I believe that will do it for you. But if you only want it between certain tags, like only inside of <Data...>...</Data>, then you could make more detailed BSR and ESR.

Actually, when I tried plugging those in as specified with the simpler BSR and ESR, I found that it didn’t quite match correctly:

<Cell ss:StyleID="sReadWrite"><Data ss:Type="String">its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it</Data></Cell> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ starts at <Data instead of at its

You could limit that by not allowing your FR to match any > characters… so instead of (?-s).{65,80}, maybe [^>\r\n]{65,80}. No, that doesn’t solve it. :-(

Wait, your expression only allows 65-80 characters before the space. But your text its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it is only 59 characters long, so it’s not long enough to match. If I change the data contents to its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it which has at least 65 characters in it, then your .-based still gets it wrong, but my modified character-class based FR will match:

<Cell ss:StyleID="sReadWrite"><Data ss:Type="String">its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it which has at least 65 characters in it</Data></Cell> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Even if I change to BSR = <Data.*?> and ESR = </Data>, it will incorrectly match with your (?-s).{65,80}(?=\x20), whereas FR = [^>\r\n]{65,80}(?=\x20) will grab just the first 65-80 characters before a space.

Sometimes, even with the generic expressions, you have to do more exploring to get it to work.

Hopefully, you can plug in the modified FR, and your choice of appropriate BSR and ESR, into the generic expression, and see how it works. And using the Find to show the various matches will help you debug issues before you go ahead and Replace. But, if you need help….

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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.

@PeterJones thanks so much for the help and links! I’ll be using it a good bit in the upcoming weeks so I’ll definitely read up on it!

Happy friday!

@PeterJones Thank you very much. Super simple, once you know where to look!! ;-)

@Giovanni-Russo ,

There is no way to change the default “filetype” in the Open dialog. If you want to filter by a certain filetype, then you just have to select the “filetype” yourself each time – or type the *.py in the “file name” box, which will also apply the filter.

(On the Save As dialog, it is different, because there’s a setting which will determine whether a normal text file defaults to saving as *.* or *.txt … but that’s only for the Save/SaveAs dialog, not on the Open dialog.)

Hello,
You can replace strings of text while retaining numbers in the middle of the line using RegEx.
Follow the steps:
Open your document in N++.
Go to the start of the document by clicking on ctrl+home.
Open The Replace Dialogue Box (ctrl+h).
Under search, mode Select regular expression.
write the following in the fields.
Find what: (?i)(?s)owns = (\d{1,4})
Replace with: $1 = { country_or_non_sovereign_subject_holds = ROOT }
Click on Replace All.

Description:
(?s) enables dot matching newlines.
(?i) makes match case insensitive.
(owns) represents a literal string.
(\d) (digit) matches any single digit (same as [0-9] ).
{1,4} matches with a 1 to 4 digit number.
$1 refers to the first match (in this case $1 will refer to the number i.e. 116).

of course there are others, but only @guy038 helped me and all notepad++ community with so hard to find solutions.

and I am using notepad++ and grepWin (and as for the Batch Process I using a great tool named TextCrawler)

@carypt ,

doesnt in printsettings of npp the wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) affect the look of the print

Sorry, it affects the look of the print, but not the font size of the print.

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Your suggestion of “wysiwyg” shows that you might not understand that option: as the “Colour Options” label on the box of options of which “WYSIWYG” is a part, those options affect the color of the print, not the font size or anything else. (Those options are all clearly documented in the Preferences > Print section of the online user manual)

@Dale-Bronk

Yea, I think this was an experimental change in 7.9.3 to see how things would go. I guess the judgement was “not well” because I believe it will change back to work as it used to for people encountering your problem.

You might want to give the 7.9.4 RC version a try; see the “Announcements” section of this site.

@Alan-Kilborn wrote:

this tells me your Notepad++ is fairly out of date.

Not necessarily. As a reminder, the updater does not overwrite existing config files. So it really says that the version currently being used had been updated from an installation that still had those launch-in-browser commands.

@Salvador-Garcia said in Launching .BAT file with paramater:

v7.9.1 Win 32 bit
Update: When I chose to update Notepad++, I get a message indicating that there are no updates. ???

v7.9.1 is the most recent Notepad++ that has had the auto-update triggered (and came long after the launch-in-browser commands were removed from the Run menu). v7.9.2 and v7.9.3 were never deemed stable enough to push to auto-update; and v7.9.4 is still in Release Candidate (“RC”) mode.

I changed the short cut keys from Shift F5 to Alt Shift R and it worked.

I am confused. Was the problem you were having that Shift+F5 wasn’t running your user-defined-command? Or was the problem that the user-defined-command wasn’t running, even when you manually selected it from the menu, it never ran? Or was the problem that it runs the batch file just fine, but doesn’t include the path name? (I thought it was the third option, until you mentioned the Shift+F5 vs Alt+Shift+R.)

Also, you never showed the results of the experiment that @Alan-Kilborn asked you to try. And you haven’t responded to @Ekopalypse’s request for ?-menu Debug Info.

I took a fresh v7.9.1 portable (straight from the zipfile, no customizations yet), and replicated Alan’s experiment:

Exit all instances of Notepad++ Run Notepad++ Run > Run set the program to cmd /K echo $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) as @Alan-Kilborn suggested click Save… give it the name DebugFullCurrentPath give it the shortcut Shift+F5 click OK => it should be saved now click Cancel to exit the menu, or Run to run the command now that you’ve saved it. I know, Cancel seems counter-intuitive; but since you hit the OK already, it really did save. typing Shift+F5 ran the command and printed the full current path. So does Run > DebugFullCurrentPath Looking at Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command will show you whether or not you have a shortcut conflict: if you do, it will highlight the offending entry red. if you have a conflict, that would explain why Shift+F5 didn’t work but Alt+Shift+R did “work”. Exit all instances of Notepad++ Run Notepad++ File > Open: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml (see 🛈 below)<Command name="DebugFullCurrentPath" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="112">cmd /K echo $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)</Command> … so that is what I would expect

My guess is that you originally saved your Launch asm2bin command without the $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH), and that the next time, when you edited the command to be E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH), you forgot to Save… and assign the name. For reference, if you assign the same name, it does not overwrite the existing Run entry: it creates a duplicate – notice this screenshot (taken after reloading Notepad++, so that shortcuts.xml will be updated) shows two DebugFullCurrentPath entries in the menu and in the XML:
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In the state you are in now, I would recommend

Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command Click on Launch asm2bin Click Delete button and confirm in the next dialog If you created the test or DebugFullCurrentPath commands that Alan and I recommended for testing, delete those as well. Close this dialog Exit all instances of Notepad++ and restart Run > Run… program = E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" please notice the quote marks – they are really there. The full current path might contain spaces, and your batch file probably expects the path name as a single token, not multiple, so using quotes will make sure that the space is considered part of the filename. Save…, use your Launch asm2bin name, and whatever shortcut you desire OK to save Now you can Cancel to exit dialog without running Check the Run menu to make sure Launch asm2bin has been re-created Check Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command to make sure that Launch asm2bin doesn’t have a conflicting shortcut Try running it, both from the Run > Launch asm2bin menu, and using your keyboard shortcut. If all is well, great! Otherwise continue Exit Notepad++ and restart. File > Open: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and the Launch asm2bin entry should look more like<Command name="Launch asm2bin" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="116">E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>

Note, the detailed steps that I outlined have always worked for me in Notepad++, no bugs ever shown, for as long as I can remember.

If it still doesn’t, please show us what’s in your shortcuts.xml, and explain in your own words exactly what you did to get there. If you have a screen-recording app like ScreenToGif you can create an animated gif of the full process, and save/upload to imgur.com or similar, and link it like  (make sure you use imgur’s .gif link, not the .gifv or the one with no extension, which will not embed an image; if you’ve done it right, the preview window on the right will show your animation running while you’re editing your post)

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🛈 : Since you haven’t shown us your Debug Info, I am assuming you have a normal installation, where config files go in %AppData%\Notepad++ 🔗. If you have cloud settings enabled, or are using a portable edition, the shortcuts.xml file will be in a different location. But since you quoted from the shortcuts.xml already, I am hoping you know this.

@yasin-koohestani

Same advice as before.

@yasin-koohestani

That sounds like homework.
I suppose you’d better look here, for answers,
since this forum only discusses Npp-related assignments.

@Alan-Kilborn Understood,
Thank you!