@ungesundes-halbwissen

from my short test it looks like it is working for utf8 encoded but not for “ansi”
encoded files if those files haven’t been loaded into the current session.

Hello, @jens-ubert, @ekopalypse, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones, and All,

Jens, welcome to the N++ community !

Seemingly, I understand that your goal is to obtain the B) syntax, leaving the C) and D syntaxes untouched. In other words, you just would like that any A) syntax be replaced with the B syntax, wouldn’t you ?

Thus, we have to grab any A syntax, specifically, and change it into the B one

Comparing all syntaxes, it comes that only the A syntax does not contain any single quote character, ' nor the $ symbol, between square brackets. We can add the rule that the variable name, before the square brackets does not contain any single quote, too !

On the other hand, the part before square brackets does not change, when moving from the A to the B syntax. So, we just need to store the text, between square brackets, and surround it with single quotes, during replacement !

So, a possible regex would be :

SEARCH \s\$[^'\r\n]+\[\K([^'$\r\n]+)(?=\])

REPLACE '\1'

Notes :

The beginning of the regex \s searches for the general kind of space character ( the Space or Tabulation chars, the \n or \r line break chars and some others… )

Then the part \$ looks for the literal regex symbol $

Now, the syntax [^'\r\n]+\[ searches the greatest non-null range of consecutive characters, different from a single quote and line-breaks chars, followed by a literal opening square bracket

The special syntax \K cancels any match and resets the regex engine working position

Thus, the part ([^'$\r\n]+) tries, now, to match the greatest non-null range of consecutive characters, either different from a single quote, a dollar and line-breaks chars, stored as group 1, due to the outer parentheses

But ONLY IF  the look-ahead (?=\]) is true, i.e. if this range is followed with an ending literal square bracket !

Finally, in replacement, the \1 syntax represents all group 1 contents, surrounded with single quotes

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse

No worries! People (especially newbies) never post their actual question. Instead they post what they think their question is, so your original answer was quite reasonable. :-)

Yeah. I think I’ll live with what is a minor anomaly for me. The scripting solution will be above my head … ;-)

@Barry-Grau23

https://web.archive.org/web/20190719202848/http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Keyboard_And_Mouse_Shortcuts
This service often helps me out

@Alan-Kilborn said:

Michael left wrapping double quotes out of that, even though the OP had them there in 2 places

purely an oversight - thanks. Corrected below:

<Command name="Run Python" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\python" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>

Hi, @alan-kilborn,

Just congratulate your great aunt to be such a modern person !! To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ll be uncomfortable with most of new objects of that time, that is…, in 23 years ;-))

BR

guy038

Oh, and BTW before anyone asks, since the Find-result panel is just another Scintilla window, I turned on visible whitespace and line wrapping for it, to aid in showing the above analysis.

@hachelle

You provide little detail, but I’ll guess that a technique that might satisfy is to do a regular expression search something like the following:

(?s)starttag.*?endtag

where you would supply the text for the starttag and endtag parts.

@Ekopalypse many thanks, that indeed works and it basically removes it. saves a lot of time

See this old thread.

@Steven-Haymes

not exactly, you missed one duplicate line ;-)

@gurikbal-singh

it only works on consecutive lines, meaning
if you have something like

a a b b c c

you get

a b c

BUT if there are other lines in between like empty lines or different lines
then it doesn’t do anything. It basically checks always the previous line with the current line and if those are the same it will delete the current line.

The NppExec plugin did the trick! Just two simple lines were all I needed:
npp_menucommand Encoding\Convert to UTF-8
NPP_SAVEAS: c:\users\clay\downloads\people.csv

Yes, that is what I looking for.
Thanks.

@jhudis

there is a known issue open, maybe you suffering from the same.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you

@Steven-Haymes said:

How about:

And I thought my response was making some assumptions. :-)

those were the docs for the auto-completion preferences; eventually, more details will be at http://notepad-plus-plus.github.io/npp-usermanual/content/auto-completion/ – or in an equivalent location at whatever the final URL for the new NPP documentation suite is.

@PeterJones said:

if the user tried a couple of single "replace"s to make sure it was working, and then hit “replace all”, and the behavior changed, that would be disturbing

Ha! I’m surprised that @guy038 hasn’t jumped in yet to talk about how exactly this sort of thing can and does happen!! :)

@PeterJones Many thanks – creating sub directory and moving .dll is the solution – all working now. :+)
Tortoise SVN plugin not available any longer via plugin manager but (as per Michael Vincent’s post ) available at http://www.incrediblejunior.com/npp_plugins/
Thanks