Hello @guy038 . thank You very much for Your good idea! this is the solution! in my nortoncommander-clone from Australia: “FCW” I have added in fc.ini: [Editor Associations] *.{xml}: “c:\Program Files\Notepad++ allegro\notepad++.exe” -nosession -lnormal good solution! thanks a lot!

First off, apologies @Евгений-Фокин , I misread your question. I’ve come back to it now as I didn’t see you reply to my solution. @Claudia-Frank had upvoted my answer but also misread the question. I can see now that in fact you were only wanting to remove the: text autoid…</text> IF the line starting with <replacement> in that group of lines had Russian characters in it. I have a revised regex which I think fits what you intended. I would suggest testing it by using in ‘Find’ mode first. You could have it bookmark all the instances that it thinks fit the criteria, then look at those before deciding to remove. Find What: (?s)<text.+?<replacement><\!\[CDATA\[[\x{080}-\x{4af}].+?text>\R? Replace with: empty field here The part that checks for a Russian character is the \x{080}-\x{4af}, I hope I’ve got that sequence correct. It only checks the first character, hopefully no non-Cyrillic character at the start with Cyrillic afterwards. I would like to hear back from you regardless of whether it helps or not. if it does NOT help, we on the forum are only too willing to offer up other possible solutions. Terry

Like I said, I understand MUCH better what the regex is supposed to do and is doing. This is the regex I’m using: (?i)^.?(<font.?|\sync.?correct|www.|.(?=Help other users)|please rate|Professional Translation|advertise your|== for|WWW.MY-SUBS.COM|SLY@Moon|subXpacio|www.opensubtitles.org|Open Subtitles MKV Player|Subtitles by|Synchr:AA|Support us and become VIP|to remove all ads|AmericasCardroom|.(?=Synced and corrected by BLuk)|Subrip by|million dollar).?\R It works flawlessly. If I run this regex on a directory of files and some of the files have consecutive lines listed for removal in the regex, I’ll get a message at the end like “Replace in Files: 26 occurrences replaced”. If I run the regex until it says “Replace in Files: 0 occurrences replaced”, all of the lines (including the multiple consecutive lines) will have been replaced. Except - occasionally there will be multiple consecutive lines at the very end of the subtitle I’m editing. In those instances, the very last line won’t have been removed. I can solve that fairly simply by loading every subtitle into NP++ and just making sure that there’s a blank line (simply a CR/FL) for the last line. I’ve tried to create a regex to do just that, but they aren’t working. It’s not a huge deal - this is MUCH better and I’m very appreciative, but if what I’m looking for is a trivial thing and anyone has suggestions they’d be very welcome. As always, thanks very much