@guy038 tank you so much, your last string (?-s)^((?!.+@).+\R?)+ work very well for my purpose! Regards.

Hi, @michael-vincent, @peterjones and All, As you suggested, @michael-vincent, I removed the space char between the # symbol and the string LANGUAGE_NAME. But, after saving and restarting N++, the pseudo abbreviation tags #LANGUAGE_NAME=.... still appear in dialog, when choosing the Plugins > QucikText > Options... !? Luckily, it does not interfere with the abbreviation tags management of the last version 0.1.2.4 of the QuickText plugin, which remains correct ;-)) Cheers, guy038 P.S. : Actually, I just did an additional test, changing any line #LANGUAGE_NAME=.... into lines LANGUAGE_NAME=.... and, this time, these lines are not displayed in the Options dialog ;-))

@Sofistanpp run that regex in backward direction from the last line Searching backwards with regex is “discouraged” and is partially disabled in Notepad++. The reason, I think, is that thru a given text, if you search backwards versus forwards, you won’t get the same hits. Sometimes (simpler regexes, as you noted) you will, but not always (depends upon the regex and maybe the data). Enabled the Backward direction button via an AutoHotkey script In general, enabling disabled controls and then performing an operation and expecting good results is a dubious premise.

@jcg3675 Thank you very much and yes, there is time when a microwave becomes the best invention since sliced bread :-) Let me know how it goes! I sure will do.

Great stuff guys. It works like a charm! Thank you! :-)

Now I have another problem no matter how much you save the file in html on the browser where I run it exit the scripts without letting me see the content (sorry for English)

@PeterJones said in Is there any plugin can make NPP realtime-auto-indent?: But Perl mode doesn’t work, so I have to use plugins You’re right: apparently, each lexer handles auto-indenting differently, and the Perl lexer does not indent when you enter a new level. WHAT?!?! With all the Perl programming I’ve done in N++ in the past I can’t believe I’ve never noticed this. Maybe always using my QuickText plugin which has an if snippet that auto-expands to the proper format: if ( ) { ^[indented to here] } Cheers.

I will try this and will surely tell you if it worked It wasn’t so much a “worked” as “we need to see what Notepad++ is sending to the command processor to figure out what’s going wrong”. But with the bit of information, it’s irrelevant now: I used %cd% to go to the directory… but cd /d "%~dp0" should be used in case of opening batch file Yes, the /d makes sense. I tend to forget that changing directory and drive using cd is more difficult; I primarily use single-drive systems (well, at work, we have network drives mapped to letters, but I’m almost never cd-ing into those directories) The %~dp0 changes the batch/script name to just be a drive and folder… but since in the NotepadPlusPlus user-commands, you don’t have a batch/script filename, and $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) already gives what you want (just the drive and folder), you don’t need that part. So, the command you need is <Command name="Java_Executor" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /k cd /d &quot;$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)&quot; &amp;&amp; &quot;D:\Projects\Java\Executor_Java.bat&quot;</Command> Note: I also put quotes around $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) as well, in case it has spaces in the path. BTW: Thanks for linking to the SO thread; when asking a question in multiple forums, it’s polite to crosslink both right away, so people can see whether it’s already been answered in the other location, or can learn from the other community’s responses.

@Alan-Kilborn I’m not sure what the code is you’re showing. It’s cythonized python code :) Basically this editor.callbackSync(self.on_updateui, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI]) is equivalent to cdef void beNotified(SCNotification *notifyCode): global notification if notifyCode.nmhdr.code == SCN_UPDATEUI: mark_spaces() With pythonscript on_updateui would handle the notifcation and here it is mark_spaces. mark_spces uses SendMessage method to do the communication with scintilla to show and proof that this message can be used to some certain of degree, so this can’t be the only reason. I assume it has to do with locking/releasing GIL and threads but I’m not going to dig deeper as I’m working on a replacement for PS - so from my point of view it doesn’t make sense to spent time on it. :)

@Alan-Kilborn said in Older Version N++: Computers used to belong to the people. No longer You got that right, now on my pc i;ts only me so i just don’t understand why n++ was made like this not allowing you to write in Program Files [probably a good reason i am sure] but at least devs could have made an option for people who want full control over a program or something like that

Hi @Wally-Kempf Maybe I’m assuming too much, but if you want to get rid of those false line wraps, extend @Alan-Kilborn 's regex as follows: Search: (?s)(\R)(?!"\d{6}",) Replace: \x20 which produces this two-lines outcome: "040339","0006","013","Amherst at City View","","","","","","HOUSTON","TX","77060","17103 IMPERIAL VALLEY DR","227","75.00","8.000000","AI","gate code 2070","","1","","","","","","","","29.946850","-95.396846","1.00","","","174350" "041217","0001","001","PALM BEACH ESTATES ","","","","","","HOUSTON","TX","77060","16818 CITY VIEW PL","227","76.00","8.000000","AI","GATE CODE 1454 SECTION 1 GATE CODE 1453 ACROSS THE STREET ENTRANCE IS ON CITY VIEW OFF BENMAR","","1","","","","","","","","29.934018","-95.396125","1.00","","","174325" Best Regards.

Hello, @terry-r and All, I said : I was waiting the Terry’s reply, first,… Because I think it is more fair to let the first guy, helping the OP, to develop his solution ;-)) Then, you can jump into the discussion, proposing alternate solutions, too ! Besides, I know that I’m really too eager to give my regex solutions and, very often, I must prevent some people from helping with their own solutions ;-)) Now, regarding your solution, you’re right about it : best to avoid large amounts of data inside the look-ahead structure ;-)) So, from the short example data, in my previous post : one two three four five six seven eight nine ten twenty-two ------- twenty-two five nineteen seven First, using the option Edit > Column Editor..., at column 12 or more, we would get : one 01 two 02 three 03 four 04 five 05 six 06 seven 07 eight 08 nine 09 ten 10 twenty-two 11 ------- 12 twenty-two 13 five 14 nineteen 15 seven 16 And , after the Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending option, we get : ------- 12 eight 08 five 05 five 14 four 04 nine 09 nineteen 15 one 01 seven 07 seven 16 six 06 ten 10 three 03 twenty-two 11 twenty-two 13 two 02 Now, using the following regex S/R : SEARCH (?-s)^(.+)\x20+\d+\R\1\x20+\d+\R? OR (?-s)^(.+)(\x20+\d+\R?)\1(?2) REPLACE Leave EMPTY We are left with : ------- 12 eight 08 four 04 nine 09 nineteen 15 one 01 six 06 ten 10 three 03 two 02 Then, moving back the numbers from the end to the beginning of line, with the column mode selection, we would obtain : 12 ------- 08 eight 04 four 09 nine 15 nineteen 01 one 06 six 10 ten 03 three 02 two And, after a last ascending sort, we have : 01 one 02 two 03 three 04 four 06 six 08 eight 09 nine 10 ten 12 ------- 15 nineteen Finally, after processing this last regex S/R, we get our expected text, removing leading numbers and trailing spaces as well as anything from the line of dashes ---, till the end of file : SEARCH (?s)^\d+\h*---+.+|^\d+\h*|\h+$ REPLACE Leave EMPTY one two three four six eight nine ten Cheers, guy038

tanxs guy038. I’m glad you went ski, even if the weather was not perfect… every now and then it is good to detach from the pc! tanxs for your reply, but not just for the answer itself, as for the spirit you put into it… thank you so much for your very appreciated answers.

Hi, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and all, Alan, I gave it a try to verify the behavior of my very old and weak XP SP3 system, on my old NEC M350 laptop ;-)) Some time ago , for various tests, I downloaded the N++ source files, so the two folders PowerEditor and scintilla in a new folder, named Sources. With my last installed N++ release ( v7.8.3 ) I ran the following Files in Files search Search "(?-s)the.*not" (167 hits in 45 files) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\license.txt (18 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\readme.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Common.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\mutex.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Sorters.h (2 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\verifySignedfile.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\PluginsManager\Notepad_plus_msgs.h (7 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyxml.h (15 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyXmlA\tinyxmlA.h (15 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\CharDistribution.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\JpCntx.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsBig5Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCharSetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCodingStateMachine.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nscore.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEscCharsetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCJPProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCKRProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCTWProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsGB2312Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsHebrewProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsLatin1Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsMBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsPkgInt.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCharSetProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSJISProber.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUniversalDetector.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUTF8Prober.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\prmem.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\uchardet.h (4 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8_16.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\PluginsAdmin\pluginsAdmin.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\shortcut\shortcut.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\PlatCocoa.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\ScintillaView.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\doc\Lexer.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\include\Platform.h (2 hits) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\License.txt (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\AutoComplete.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\CaseConvert.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Document.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Style.h (1 hit) D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\ViewStyle.h (1 hit) Presently, my current session already contained 36 opened files, in various folders The search directory was D:\@@\770\Sources and the filters zone contained *.txt *.h. All the search was done in 1,9 s Note that the total size, of these 45 files, is not very important : 336,206 bytes The opening, within N++, of these 45 files, with the Open All option, took 3,09 s Then, I just have to use 45 times the Ctrl + W shortcut to get rid of all these additional test files ;-)) May be, you could open the Windows Event Manager ( eventvwr.msc ), choose System, then the menu option View > Filter.... Now, tick Error events only and valid. You may also choose disk in the event source list, for an additional filtering ? Best Regards, guy038

@Ekopalypse Only changes by the instance which get closed last will be saved. Oh, yea. Knew that. Another reason to dislike M.I. :-)

@Rajeev-Gupta , Hope now its very clear to you You apparently didn’t read in my boilerplate where I explained how to mark the data as code using the </> button that’s on the toolbar when you are writing your post. It makes it much easier to know for sure what your data is without the forum mangling characters, and to distinguish your narrative from your data. Please use that. Further, though you used more words to explain, what you didn’t do is say whether one or both of our solutions works for you. Also, that semicolon is new information, which changes the regex. If you want helpful answers, you need to give us representative examples of your data, or you are going to have to be willing to edit the regex to meet your needs. And if you ask more questions, you will have to tell us what didn’t work for you (ie, did it not match anything? or did it match something, but not give the exact replacement you expected? or …) Please help us help you by formatting the text as has been requested, and giving us example before and after data, without changing the expectations every post. If I modify @Ekopalypse’s expression to include the semicolon and to use your more-specific replacement example: find = (?-s)(set @queryName = '.+';\h*\R) – I added (?-s) to enforce .-does-not-match-newline, and added the semicolon that you didn’t tell us about. replace = $1if @DebugMode > 1\r\nBEGIN\r\n********\r\nEND\r\n – I changed the IF statement, and included BEGIN/END wrappers It turned the document: set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15'; blah blah set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20'; halb halb into set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15'; if @DebugMode > 1 BEGIN ******** END blah blah set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20'; if @DebugMode > 1 BEGIN ******** END halb halb Please notice how using the </> button has put the text into a plaintext box, and the ASCII quotes '...' do not get turned into smartquotes ‘...’, so it’s a more-accurate representation of your data. Using Eko’s as the base, I was able to generate something that I think meets your expectations, assuming that **** isn’t supposed to include anything from the original match. Using mine as the base, find = (?-s)set @queryName = '(.*)';\h*(?:(\R)|\z)\K replace = (?2:\r\n)if @DebugMode > 1\r\nBEGIN\r\n***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match = '$1' *****\r\nEND\r\n (if we haven’t made it clear in our answers, all of these answers assume ☑ regular expression is enabled) For my regex, modified for semicolon ; and your more-specific replacement, the *** will be able to include the text from inside your queryName string, so set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15'; blah blah set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20'; which has the last line end with no newline character, will become set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15'; if @DebugMode > 1 BEGIN ***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15' ***** END blah blah set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20'; if @DebugMode > 1 BEGIN ***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20' ***** END Both of these meet your expressed needs, and you should have been able to figure out how to put the semicolon after the closing ' to make it match for you. At this point, I am done with freebies for you. If you show more effort – properly formatting your post so the data comes through, giving us representative data, telling us whether or not ours work, and what isn’t right (for example, saying “when I tried it with data xyz, your expression made it pdq, but I wanted pdqu; I tried modifying the regex to rr;r, because I thought adding the semicolon would make it match more accurately, but that made it say pdqv, which still isn’t quite what I wanted”) – if you show that level of effort, so that we can tell you’re trying to learn from us rather than mooch off us, then I’ll be willing to answer more well-formed questions about this regex. If you don’t, well, we’ve given enough that assuming your data was correct, it will work for you.

Thanks @Alan-Kilborn and @guy038 . Both of them worked what I was looking for. I’m still new to regular expressions, but I will try to dig in more on both of your solutions.

@Tazhar0001 said in Find and replace a variable item: Peter, is it possible to send you a private message of the .XML file I have? My knowledge in doing such a task is, minimal to say the least. There are no PM on this, and I don’t advertise my email address here (avoiding spambot harvesting). The [example data](https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/50274 you showed near the start of this thread does work with the script I provided (well, I guess my previous post was missing the first line needed): from Npp import * def add_1(m): return (m.group(1)) + str(int(m.group(2)) + 1) + (m.group(3)) editor.rereplace('(lootmax=")([0-9]+)(")', add_1); Even with data like: lootmax="2" lootmax="4" lootmax="6" lootmax="1" lootmax="5" lootmax="9" <tag other="x" lootmax="2" /> <tag other="y" lootmax="4" /> <tag other="z" lootmax="6" /> <other>blah</interferes> <tag other="p" lootmax="1" /> <tag other="d" lootmax="5" /> <tag other="z" lootmax="9" /> all the lootmax="#" get one added properly. If you need help with PythonScript Install PythonScript (if you don’t already have it): Plugins > Plugins Admin, check the box on ☐ PythonScript, and click Install; restart Notepad++ as needed Plugins > PythonScript > New script, named lootmax.py Paste the contents of the script from this post. Save. Set Notepad++'s active file to your file with the lootmax values. Run **Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > lootmax`; the replacement should occur.

@TBugReporter if I use fifteen programs by Compatublo, eight by DidgeryDot, and twelve from NaNsoft… I’ll bet that you don’t. :-) when the fix might only require a three line code change People that make these kinds of statements, and we seem to see them a lot here, just show they don’t know what they are talking about. create an issue on the GitHub…done And well done at that. devs should also be allowed to decide for themselves They surely do. Those people are golden, and in general, underappreciated. Three cheers.

this lesson is well understood :) I’m an amateur in website creation, and I have several pages under different names, that I have to put dashes (-) instead of Space and at the end of each line before the / I’ll add extension .html and the rest after (/) is the title of each page.