Thank you. It works.

If you had Test | Word and replaced the | with a space then you would have three spaces, not two.

If your list uses | as a separator and that sometimes there are one or more spaces before and/or after the | then use regular expression mode.
Search for: \x20*\|\x20*
Replace with: \x20

The first \x20* looks for zero or more leading spaces. I used \x20 rather than a space self as it’s easier to see on the screen. \| looks for the |. In regular expression mode a | is special and so use \| to search for a | itself. The second \x20* looks for zero or more trailing spaces.

If your data has either one or zero spaces before and after the | and never had two or more spaces before/after the | then you can use
Search for: \x20?\|\x20?
Replace with: \x20

I’m glad it’s working as expected now.
You may have accidentally pressed a keyboard-shortcut which changed the text direction.

Also, using Fountain markup would be good to work on with a “code/compose” and “preview” panels, easily done side by side, like this forum, or like Wikimedia editing.

@Jose-Victor-Mirandola-da-Silva

Hmmm, not sure you can, without some help…

For example, you could script something with the Pythonscript plugin that would loop over all open XML files and execute this:

Notepad.runMenuCommand('Macro', 'your macro name here')

Probably more effort than you wanted to go to…

Maybe there’s a way with the NppExec plugin? Experts on that plugin please chime in if so…

I found the mistake!

And BTW I believe it is pronounced “Tim-Toady”

:-)

@Scott-Sumner said:

In what ASCII scheme is a “space” equal to “55”?

Maybe the “55” was supposed to be a “SS”…short for “Single-Space”?

:-D

@enrique-villacoronado

FAQ.

@pieterjanvc
Last thing I can think of that may (but probably will not) work for you is to define a Delimiter style having:

Open: . Escape: Close: ((EOL))

This will highlight every period to the end of the line.

@The-V8

It is going to depend upon your From _ th character setting in the Auto-Completion preferences, but the general technique would be to backspace off your errant ppy and then start typing opy until auto completion again kicks in and pops up the box.

Hello, @frederick-dalmeida,

Probably, your regex should have that form !

(?-is)^\x{FE}.*?\xFE\x14\xFE\K.+\\(.+?)\\(?=(?:Root - |Top of |EAD2EF20-))|^\x{FE}RecordID\xFE\x14\xFE\K(Full)(?=Path\xFE$)

or may be, if we care about possible indentations :

(?-is)^\h*\x{FE}.*?\xFE\x14\xFE\K.+\\(.+?)\\(?=(?:Root - |Top of |EAD2EF20-))|^\x{FE}RecordID\xFE\x14\xFE\K(Full)(?=Path\xFE$)

For documentation about regular expressions, see here

As you managed to adapt my regex to your needs, I suppose that you correctly understood its syntax :-) But I don’t mind giving you additional information, if necessary !

Best Regards,

guy038