Hi @terry-r, @devin-rusty, and All,

If we assume that there is always, at least ONE pure blank line, between the CONTEXT: block of lines and the statement > END STRING, an other formulation of your regex S/R could be :

SEARCH (?s-i)^(> BEGIN STRING\R)(.+?)(> CONTEXT:.+?\R)(\R)+

REPLACE \1\4\3\2

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

Actually, the syntax (> CONTEXT:.+?\R)(\R)+ is equivalent to (> CONTEXT:.+?)(\R){2,}. In other words, it searches for the string > CONTEXT: followed with the shortest range of any character till, at least, two consecutive line-breaks. But, with the later syntax, the range of characters (> CONTENT:........) does not include its final line-break !

As Scott said, it’s hard to tell, because the forum ate your whitespace (and we cannot see your EOL characters in a paste).

I did an example: turn on View > Show Symbol > Show all characters to show the different results and make sure spaces, tabs, and EOL were all visible:
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On the left, I marked \n (LF SPACE SPACE) {top left}, and then replaced it with tab {bot left}. As you can see, it found two LF that were followed by two spaces – one in the WINDOWS EOL (CRLF) section, and one in the LINUX EOL (LF) section. But when it does the replace, it leaves the CR in the WINDOWS EOL section, which Notepad++ properly renders as a newline sequence for line purposes.

On the right, I marked \r\n (CR LF SPACE SPACE) { top right }, and then replaced it with tab {bot right}. As you can see, it only found the one in the WINDOWS EOL section, but properly replaced the full EOL sequence, rather than just the LF portion of the CR LF.

So, if your file has linux line endings, then your regex should have worked for your described data. If you file has windows line endings, then your regex only replaces part of the EOL, and you should use \r\n (CR LF SPACE SPACE) instead.

If you switch to regular expression mode, then the magical \R is enabled: this magical regex sequence matches CR, LF, or CR LF. So search = \R (backslash big-R space space) and replace with \t would work for either style of line ending.

@Bas-van-Roosmalen

You’d probably have luck writing some Excel VBA to do this, turning this into not-a-Notepad++ -question…

Worked. Thanx!

settings > preferences > multi-instance ☑ Default (mono-instance)

Also, if that isn’t sufficient, make sure that your shortcuts and registry entries don’t add the -multiInst command line option.

Disabling html/xml close tag auto-insert in Preferences > Auto-Competition seems to be the only option that “solves” it.

Thanks everyone for your help!

My immediate guess would be line endings (assuming you are creating your file in Notepad++ and then transferring to a linux box via WinSCP). You can solve this either by setting WinSCP to transfer in ASCII mode, or you can change the line ending in Notepad++ before you save the file in Notepad++: Edit > EOL Conversion > Unix (LF).

@dinkumoil oh wow lol. you already made a plugin that can set the EOL of a file based on its file extension.

Special thanks!

Hello, @skevich21, @peterjones, @scott-sumner, @terry-r and All,

Peter, before posting I had tested the Fileformat.Info site, which does provide a great amount of information ;-))

However, I realized that it you try to paste a character, which has an Unicode code-point over \x{FFFF}, it does not find any character :-(( So, I preferred not to mention it, in my last post !

For instance, using the character, given as an example, at the end, your can type in the value 12345, at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi? and click on the Go button

=> The white square 𒍅 should be displayed, in the Character line

Now, simply, select and copy this 𒍅 character

And paste it at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm

After clicking on the Search button, you’ll notice that it answers : Search 𒍅 => O hits

Now move back to the http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi? site

Choose the first radio button Character

Enter any single character, for instance, the letter A and valid

Finally, delete the A char and paste the character 𒍅, instead

=> After validation, it does find the expected character :-))

Of course, I’m pretty sure that there must be other websites, which properly manage these characters, either !

Cheers,

guy038

Hello

I tried to install XML Tools. But I was not able to do it.
(Windows 7, 32 bit) I tried it also as Administrator.

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???

Thank you - worked perfect!

Thank you for notifying us !

I knew there was some command users use but couldn’t find what kind of. I did some replacing by myself but hit the wall everytime i had to replace Line xxxx and couldn’t think of how to reference before the “id”. Anyway thank you very much for helping me and tips for my next post.

Hello, @anatol-sam,

I think so. But we need some details, about the text to change !

Simply, give us one or several example(s) of the bunch(es) of text which you want to search AND the corresponding text which you expect, for each bunch, after the S/R operation !

To be sure that your text will NOT be interpreted with the Markdown syntax, used on this site, simply wrap all your BEFORE and AFTER stuff with, either :

The starting line ```z and the ending line ``` ( using the backquote / backtick character ` )

The starting line ~~~z and the ending line ~~~ ( using the tilde character ~ )

For instance :

I have :

```z
Your BEFORE stuff
```

And I would like :

~~~z
Your AFTER stuff
~~~

So, in short, give us some material to think about :-))

Best Regards

guy038

Hello, @anthony-lovelady, @terry-r, @david-bailey, and All

As Terry, I was confused about the final goal of the OP. Luckily, Terry almost clarified the problem :-)

I say, “almost”,  because we must take in account some other points :

We may consider that the initial text contains blocks, separated by blank lines. These blank lines must be deleted, before calling the Column editor !. Otherwise, the numbering wouldn’t be made of consecutive numbers :-((

May be, the lines Cheat0_N = and Cheat0_O= may contain numbers different from 0, like, for instance, Cheat28_N = or Cheat72_O=

Also, the word Cheat, in the original text, may be written in lower-case or with any case

Finally, Terry, I think that you forgot an equal sign =, after the part Cheat\d+, in the second regex, at STEP 3

So, given an initial text, as below :

Cheat0=“Arms Connect”,80047F77 0022,81047F88 1836,81047F96 E836 Cheat28_N = Cheat72_O= cheat3=“First_Test”,702A65B7 0198,658CC6D0 9215,8921BF80 C123 cheat3_N = cheat3_O= Cheat12=“Example”,C9245F81 990A,42C845D1 0000,95AD692F A23B Cheat0_N = Cheat2_O= cheat07=“end of the Test”,004F2227 C52D,623C78B2 52F3,692A7D6C 5520 cheat00_N = cheat100_O=

Then, this first regex S/R :

SEARCH (?i-s)Cheat\d+_(N|O).+\R?|(^\h+\R)+

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Would give the text, below :

Cheat0=“Arms Connect”,80047F77 0022,81047F88 1836,81047F96 E836 cheat3=“First_Test”,702A65B7 0198,658CC6D0 9215,8921BF80 C123 Cheat12=“Example”,C9245F81 990A,42C845D1 0000,95AD692F A23B cheat07=“end of the Test”,004F2227 C52D,623C78B2 52F3,692A7D6C 5520

Now, after performing the Column editor action, with a decimal starting number 0, we obtain :

0Cheat0=“Arms Connect”,80047F77 0022,81047F88 1836,81047F96 E836 1cheat3=“First_Test”,702A65B7 0198,658CC6D0 9215,8921BF80 C123 2Cheat12=“Example”,C9245F81 990A,42C845D1 0000,95AD692F A23B 3cheat07=“end of the Test”,004F2227 C52D,623C78B2 52F3,692A7D6C 5520

Finally, using the second regex S/R, below :

SEARCH (?i-s)(\d+)Cheat\d+=(.+?”),(.+)(\R)

REPLACE cheat\1_desc = \2\4cheat\1_enable = true\4cheat\1_code = “\3”\4

You should get the expected text :

cheat0_desc = “Arms Connect” cheat0_enable = true cheat0_code = “80047F77 0022,81047F88 1836,81047F96 E836” cheat1_desc = “First_Test” cheat1_enable = true cheat1_code = “702A65B7 0198,658CC6D0 9215,8921BF80 C123” cheat2_desc = “Example” cheat2_enable = true cheat2_code = “C9245F81 990A,42C845D1 0000,95AD692F A23B” cheat3_desc = “end of the Test” cheat3_enable = true cheat3_code = “004F2227 C52D,623C78B2 52F3,692A7D6C 5520”

Best regards,

guy038

I am pretty sure [1] that Arduino uses C/C++ by default, so choosing Settings > Preferences > New Document to C++ would be what you want.