Hello, @ty-ty, Seemingly, Ty-Ty, you’re asking for three different points : A : How to delete some structured data, located at each beginning of line ? B : How to delete some structured data, located at each end of line ? C : How to add a string at each end of line ? Just note that the points B and C may be replaced with : D : How to replace some structured data, at each end of line, by a literal string So, let’s imagine your initial list, opened in Notepad++ : *363780 willtall@gmail.com:xenogears *363781 kaansoulp@gmail.com:kaan1976 *363782 angelica.valila@gmail.com:pissis69 *363782 angelica.valila@gmail.com:pissis69 *363784 twsnyderman@yahoo.com:sdchbltmvp *363785 shaunamiekley@gmail.com:lfhs929 *363786 kynajo@gmail.com:jehovah1 *363787 stynrynn@gmail.com:satya96 *363788 haleyottley@gmail.com:haley0ttley *363789 pandemonium.jones@gmail.com:odder7471 *363790 marielle_koudijs@hotmail.com:Larissa18 *363791 robnoice@gmail.com:robtb303 *363792 willtall@gmail.com:xenogears *363793 kaansoulp@gmail.com:kaan1976 *363794 angelica.valila@gmail.com:pissis69 *363795 megsellig@gmail.com:bhyc9999 *363796 twsnyderman@yahoo.com:sdchbltmvp *363797 shaunamiekley@gmail.com:lfhs929 *363798 kynajo@gmail.com:jehovah1 *363799 stynrynn@gmail.com:satya96 Obviously, we can deduce that : The part to delete, at the beginning, of each line ( Case A ) : Begin by possible space characters, followed by a * symbol Then followed by some digits ( 6 in our example ) and ends with possible space characters The part to delete, at the end, of eech line ( Case B ) : Begin with the unique colon of each line, followed by all the remaining characters of each line So, to achieve point A : Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Type in the regex ^\x20*\*\d+\x20*, in the Find what: zone Leave the Replace with: zone EMPTY Check the Wrap around and Regular expression options Click on the Replace All button Notes : The ^ symbol means the beginning of line location Then, the syntax \x20* represents a string, possibly empty, of space characters The form \* try to match a literal star character. It must be escaped, due to its special meaning in regexes And \d+ stands for a non-empty range of consecutive digits Again, \x20* matches a string, possibly empty, of space characters, before each e-mail address To achieve point B : Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Type in the regex :.+, in the Find what: zone Leave the Replace with: zone EMPTY Check the Wrap around and Regular expression options Click on the Replace All button Notes : First, the : matches a literal colon symbol Then the syntax .+ represents any non-empty range of characters, located after the colon, till the end of each line But, you may combine all these search-replacements, in an unique regex Therefore, to achieve points A and D, at the same time, use the regexes, below : SEARCH ^\x20*\*\d+\x20*|(:.+) REPLACE ?1\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20Love Notes : The search regex is just an alternative between the two regexes, discussed above The second regex (:.+) is surrounded by round parentheses, to be stored as group 1 In replacement, the form ?1....... means : If group 1 exists, just replace the colon and all text, located after, by six space characters, followed by Love If group 1 does not exist, delete all text, before each e-mail address, as the ELSE part of this conditional replacement is absent ! So, after a click on the Replace All button, you should get the text below : willtall@gmail.com Love kaansoulp@gmail.com Love angelica.valila@gmail.com Love angelica.valila@gmail.com Love twsnyderman@yahoo.com Love shaunamiekley@gmail.com Love kynajo@gmail.com Love stynrynn@gmail.com Love haleyottley@gmail.com Love pandemonium.jones@gmail.com Love marielle_koudijs@hotmail.com Love robnoice@gmail.com Love willtall@gmail.com Love kaansoulp@gmail.com Love angelica.valila@gmail.com Love megsellig@gmail.com Love twsnyderman@yahoo.com Love shaunamiekley@gmail.com Love kynajo@gmail.com Love stynrynn@gmail.com Love Remark : In the regexes, you may type a single space character, instead of the \x20 syntax ! But, that later form just suppresses any ambiguity ! Best Regards, guy038

You could also use the plugin https://sourceforge.net/projects/npptranslate/files/bin/Translate_3.1.1.0.zip, if getting translations from within N++ is your main focus. Just tested it with some simple testfile. Works ok, if it is UTF-8, but after change of encoding to ANSI babylon causes a crash. I think this is not caused by N++ itself. Also happens for the x64 version of N++: gdi32.dll!IsCreateFontIndirectAPresent() Unbekannt Nichtbenutzercode. Symbole wurden geladen. gdi32.dll!TranslateCharsetInfoStub() Unbekannt Nichtbenutzercode. Symbole wurden geladen. captlib64.dll!00007ffb47446d53() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. captlib64.dll!00007ffb474455d6() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. captlib64.dll!00007ffb47445cf8() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d531b4e() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d531dae() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d5242e7() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d52dfb2() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d5131d7() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d513731() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d545835() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d5472f8() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. SciLexer.dll!00007ffb2d54b774() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. [Externer Code] Frame mit Anmerkungen notepad++.exe!00007ff71f645c39() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. notepad++.exe!00007ff71f645e06() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen. [Externer Code] Frame mit Anmerkungen notepad++.exe!00007ff71f67c008() Unbekannt Es wurden keine Symbole geladen.

I didn’t know we could choose to just show the whitespaces other than EOL characters. Solves half of my problem. Better than nothing. “View Menu > Show Symbols > Show Whitespace and TAB” Thanks a lot!

Thank you, looks so simple and elegant that makes me think where my “open minded” has gone. Will try it.

Thanks Scott Sumner, that’s doing it fine.

@Doug-Skuce I assume by “this” you mean a user-defined language definition for prolog. If that is correct, all you should need to do is select prolog from the language menu. Once the user-defined language has been imported (or defined), then whenever you open a file in the editor having the file extension specified in the language’s definition, the file should be syntax highlighted automatically.

@Scott-Sumner said: Find what zone: (?-s)^word1.*\R Replace with zone: $0word2\r\n Match case checkbox: your choice if you need it ticked or not Search mode: Regular expression thanks scott works perfectly

Great, thanks. Ch

@jacobscrackers So as an example, try this in the Run (menu) -> Run… -> The Program to Run box: cmd /K echo $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) As to "can I set a default for a particular file type? ", you’ll have to be more specific…

I can almost taste the cookies …

That did the trick. Exactly what I needed. Thanks much.

@chcg Thank you chcg I think am in way over my head… will persevere though.

@MAPJe71 Thank you very much , am testing now . @ Scott Sumner I did several searches at google but not point me to here , i didn’t search here but next time i’ll do , Thanks for the screen shoot .

@Kieren-Baillie said: with regular expression checked and a look ahead regex in find what like (?-s)^.*(?=\Rfile = open\(first_program_used\)) you should be able to to find the line prior to file = open … Note: in replace with you need to escape the \first by \\first so it looks like first_program_used = main_address + r"\\first_program_used.txt" Cheers Claudia

@Libby-Len-Traubman so I assume your initial question about bold, italic was also related to html programming? If so, yes you can use npp to create webpages but notepad++ doesn’t have any help file how to create a webpage. What you can do is to use web resources like https://www.w3schools.com/ and once you’ve written your code use run menu and one of the browser functions like launch in firefox etc… But, again, notepad++ does not provide all those browsers it just assumes that you have, at least one, installed, and tries to start it with the current document open as parameter to the browser executable. Cheers Claudia