@Davey-Clarke
I don’t know if you are using 32-bit Notepad++ or the Pythonscript plugin, but if you’re willing to do both then the following script will do the job. When run while the desired file to be split (e.g., …\myfile.txt) is active, it will produce 2+ related files containing the post-split data (e.g., …\myfile_1.txt, …\myfile_2.txt, etc).
I named this script SplitCurrentFileByBlankLine.py:
import os
import math
def SCFBBL__main():
pathname = notepad.getCurrentFilename()
if pathname.lower().startswith('new '): return # must have a real file on disk
#line_delim_regex = r'^\h*\R' # match truly empty lines OR lines containing only whitespace
line_delim_regex = r'^\R' # match truly empty lines ONLY
match_span_tuple_list = []
def match_found(m):
if m.start(1) != -1:
# delimiter starts the file, followed by non-delimiter data, plus another delimiter (will get at most one match of this type)
match_span_tuple_list.append(m.span(1))
elif m.start(4) != -1:
# mid-file data plus delimiter (most matches will be of this type)
match_span_tuple_list.append(m.span(4))
elif m.start(7) != -1:
# end of file where no delimiter follows data (will get at most one match of this type)
match_span_tuple_list.append(m.span(7))
editor.research(r'(?s)(?:(?:{D})+(?<g1>.+?)(?<g2>(?<g3>{D})+))' \
'|' \
'(?:(?<g4>.+?)(?<g5>(?<g6>{D})+))' \
'|' \
'(?<g7>.+?\z)'.format(D=line_delim_regex), match_found)
num_files_to_create = len(match_span_tuple_list)
if num_files_to_create < 2: return # no need to split anything
if num_files_to_create > 10: # warn user if large # of files is going to be created
answer = notepad.messageBox('There will be {} files created.\r\n\r\nCONTINUE ?'.format(num_files_to_create), '', MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO | MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.DEFBUTTON2)
if answer != MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES: return
(path_part, file_part) = pathname.rsplit(os.sep, 1)
file_without_dot_ext = file_part; ext_wo_dot = ''
try:
(file_without_dot_ext, ext_wo_dot) = file_part.rsplit('.', 1)
except ValueError: pass
num_digits = int(math.log(num_files_to_create, 10)) + 1
out_file_path_str_format = '{base}_{{:0{d}}}'.format(base=file_without_dot_ext, d=num_digits)
if len(ext_wo_dot) > 0: out_file_path_str_format += '.' + ext_wo_dot
out_file_path_str_format = path_part + os.sep + out_file_path_str_format
for (index, (match_start_pos, match_end_pos)) in enumerate(match_span_tuple_list):
with open(out_file_path_str_format.format(index), 'wb') as f:
f.write(editor.getTextRange(match_start_pos, match_end_pos))
SCFBBL__main()
