@Bart-Van-Audenhove

you can use regular expression search and replace with a technique like described here.

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Claudia

@Tim-OBrien

Menu Edit->Line Operations

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Claudia

@Jayson-Cohen

If you are comfortable with some programming you might want to check out

PythonScript LuaScript

This community will help, I’m sure.

@Steve-Dyson

Can I change the default character set when an existing file is opened?

unfortunately not at the moment, this has not been fixed yet.

even if you go to preferences > misc > and disable autodetect character encoding, it will open an existing utf8 file as utf8 and not to what you’ve set as your default

@Claudia-Frank

Hi, I already tried that but it doesn’t work. Somehow Windows (or Notepad++) doesn’t “remember” the software associated with the file.

@Luis-Piña-III

depending on how you installed notepad++ you do have either a
backup directory under INSTALL_DIRECTORY\notepad++
or under %APPDATA%\notepad++.

Check if you find the files there, if you can’t find it they are most probably gone.

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Claudia

@thongtin-congnghe

without additional information we don’t know also.
Did you try the obvious steps like restart windows, reinstall notepad++ etc… ?

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Claudia

MAPJe71, Scott Sumner;

Thank you for responding to my question. I appreciate the help.

I think it would be a good idea for me to change the column name to a different name.

Thanks again. : )

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the swift reply. That is pretty much what I expected. I also spotted your post the the original bug posting pointing back to my original posting asking for testing on these forums. Thanks for doing that.

I understand the need to prioritise and that is exactly the response that I gave to the people who are chasing me about if it has been fixed.

I don’t think I have the skills to fix the bug but I might be able to work out where it is coming from. I did work in IT for 7 years as a webdesigner/programmer/general dogsbody before moving into my current job. Infact that is the reason my establishment approached me when they needed a bit of software to do what I recommended np++ for.

Thanks again for your reply.

John.

@D.J.-Gibson
yes, you can do this by using regular expressions in the replace panel of np++

here is an example:

original data:

<title>test me</title> <a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org"> https://notepad-plus-plus.org </a>

activate search mode: regular expression:

find what: <(.*?)> replace with: (leave this line empty)

result:

test me https://notepad-plus-plus.org

@thexmanxyz

if you already did the research when and how it is happening then it would be nice if you could describe
what needs to be done to replicate that issue in detail.

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Claudia

I assume it isn’t really variable but a predefined set of possible characters, if so
you can build an alternation class like this

[\.\*-:]

This class would look for either a period, a asteriks, a dash or a colon.

If you ask yourself why this backslash appears then it is because regular expressions uses
special chars for doing something special :-)
Like the period is used as a placeholder for ONE char and the asteriks is used as a multiplier.
And if you want to search for those chars literally you need to escape them by putting a backslash
in front. Now you see, that backslash itself is a special char too and in case you want to look for
a backslash you need to put another one in front.

If you want to understand more about regular expression I would recommend reading
this.

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Claudia

@Claudia-Frank I should do some experiments: when that class was not commented out, I got nothing in the console, black or red. It isn’t a problem now, but I’m a bit curious. (Thanks for the tips.)

@fullpocoyo-as

If these are random lines than I don’t see how this could be achieved in a simple way using
notepad++ builtin functions. I would propose to use a scripting plugin like
python script or lua script or whatever else is out there and able to get access to the
content of the document.

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Claudia

@Claudia-Frank
That did it, thank you very much.

Can you make a small recording of the problem in question?

@Joël-Thieffry

I assume it is better to post this issue here.

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Claudia

UTF8 and ANSI, whatever this means in your case, do share a common set of characters.
If your data consists only of these characters there is no way to determine the “user-wanted”
encoding. If you like to work mainly with UTF8 document one thing you can do is to set the
new document specifics like so.

If you want to understand the encoding stuff better, you may want to read this article.

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Claudia