If you used the capital \R in my regex above, it should have worked, whether your file had CRLF (windows, aka \r\n) or LF (linux and modern mac, \n), or CR (old macos \r). It should have worked even if some were CRLF and some were LF. It wouldn’t work, however, if there was a blank line between, or other such oddity.

If you open the original file in Notepad++, and enable View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters, you should see little black boxes for the end of line, either two with CR and LF, or one or the other… Plus, your status bar should list what EOL Notepad++ detects (Windows (CR LF), Unix (LF), or Macintosh (CR)). If you give us a screenshot (see the help-with-markdown post for screenshot help; use the -notation so the image is visible in the forum), we might be able to see why the regex didn’t work in your original file.

@Eko-palypse
I finally got it using a user-defined language.

Thank You So Much!

@PeterJones

its depraved, definitively depraved 😂😂😂
glad you’re here, i’m a bit (compulsively) hypersensitive to even short offline periods of core members at the moment … i promise i’ll try to work on desensitising a bit ;-)

btw: there was an unusually low amount of new or funny questions this weekend (perceived), so thankfully not much to miss or catch up with.

@Meta-Chuh Thank you so much!
you’d very help me!!!

My interpretation is that the OP really wants to see 5 lines of context before/after hits for his search. The LineFilter plugin can do it. Or the following regex search can, if one is searching for the word text (as just an example):

Find what: ^(?:.*\R){5}.*text.*\R(?:.*\R){5}

I changed the setting and there are no problems.
Thanks, i wish you a good day…

welcome to the notepad++ community @Lasse-Jeremiassen

you can download the official portable version of notepad++ 7.6.2 from here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.6.2/npp.7.6.2.bin.zip
extract it to your desktop, usb drive or any place you want (except %ProgramFiles%)
and run notepad++.exe inside it.

In portable npp I assume plugin, language and function list files are a part of the portable environment, is that correct?

yes, it will all be inside this npp.7.6.2.bin folder.

note: you can rename this folder, and/or have more than one portable copy at the same time, to e.g. use one of it for testing and playing around with any settings, and one to work

@PeterJones

thanks for your link, it’s a reminder of paying a lot of gratitudes to loreia.

i’ve just revisited this old thread answered by @Claudia-Frank and realized how fast an author, of an ingenious work like this one, can almost be forgotten, once it is taken as granted as the air that we breathe.

… and yet again, i have to repeat that i miss claudia and scott … not that i just miss and lack their knowledge and passion to research,
(many of the +2 year core regulars have already been able to achieve or surpass the same level)
but i just miss having them around.

readers note:
yes we all do have a life outside notepad++, but we use it, love it (sub note: love|hate as in any relationships ;-) ), believe in it due to it’s almost unprecedented activity in the 16 years of it’s existence, and we just enjoy giving something in return, by helping people that can’t spend as much time on what you can do with notepad++, and most important: share how to do it.
helping out is also a little gesture to appreciate the help we received when we started out as newbies.

Thanks both, just what I wanted absolutely brilliant. Thanks also for the detailed explanation guy038 :-)

@Liz-Pitre
Thanks for getting back to us. Yes, regex will definitely help you when you have a range of numbers to search for and update/replace.

Just be careful though, that if your data contains ANY other numbers the regex \d+ will find them ALL.

Sometimes telling us more about what you don’t want changed can help as much as what you do want changed. In this case you told us the digits which need replacing are either 7 or 8 digits long. We could make a regex which works ONLY on this data if needed.

In terms of learning more about NPP (wording used synonymously with Notepad++) and about the regex engine within NPP may I direct you to our FAQ section. Within are lots of links to various websites which will help in your learning process. Also feel free to ask on this forum when it’s NPP related.

Welcome.

Terry

@Eko-palypse , that’s amazing! Many thanks, it works perfectly!

oooooooo facepalm

u are right I don’t remember that when i use “if” in .lua i need to “end” it

and it don’t get valid (for .lua) ending because it’s structure for game engine (in .txt)
so yee if will fold in wrong way _______

thanks :))

welcome to the notepad++ community @Rob-Plaza
if you print a file out of notepad++ it should use the same fonts you see in the editor window, as seen in the screenshot below.

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did you set any custom fonts in notepad++ ?
please also paste your debug information here.
you can find your debug information in notepad++ > ? > debug info > copy debug info into clipboard.

Yes, an alternate syntax would require a lexer plugin. (Or getting a new lexer integrated into Scintilla, and then getting NPP to update Scintilla to the latest-and-greatest, which hasn’t been a priority of the NPP developer.)

Or, if you’re brave, I’ve got some links to some old posts by @Claudia-Frank , who had done some work on making custom lexers using PythonScript. Those links are in my last post in https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16164/bug-javascript-multiline-character-not-understood-by-notepad/11 . It’d take some effort on your part to customize those to work with HTML+templating, but it’d be a starting point.

(too late for update 2): 7.6.2 is getting to the point that it’s considered more stable than 7.6 and 7.6.1, so you should be safe manually updating to that, as long as you follow @Meta-Chuh’s plugin advice here and elsewhere in the forum.

Thanks for your time and reply. At this point in time it is to confusing and more of a distraction. Getting the syntax down is hard enough, worrying about shortcuts is a month or two down the road. Plus the 30 extra seconds it involves to open the command prompt window. Then filter down through the directory is really not that big a deal.

In every tutorial regardless of the language they get incentives for getting you to install the IDE or editor they are pushing. If it is not Atom it is Codepen or Sublime, Video Studio wants you to get the Pro version. Plus it cost you at least $19.00 or more monthly for that functionality.

I am just getting comfortable working off the cmd line and creating directories on C:\ drive. I should worry about getting the roof on before I start looking at carpeting and recliners for the TV room. Thanks for your help, back to learning …Peace…

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the suggestion. Considering that the solution from @PeterJones worked and was much easier, I may try this one at a later time. Cheers.

@Eddie-Jr.-Panes

I worked on it further and came up with something more generic:

(?-s)^(?:.*?(;|,|\t)){FIELDMINUS1}\K(?:.*?)(?=(?1)|\R|\z)

It will match various delimiters: ; or , or tab. To add or remove delimiters, just change this part of it: (;|,|\t)

It will also work (and highlight nothing) for a field if that field position occurs in the middle of two consecutive field delimiters (also stated as two delimiters occurring back to back).

I saw a slight problem. If FIELDMINUS1 is zero, and the first field in the data to be matched is empty (meaning a line starts off with a delimiter rather than non-delimiter), then the match is incorrect. Maybe guru of gurus @guy038 could fix this problem,?