Hello, @mary-soifaite, Thanks for your different images. And, this confirms that, if we consider the general template : STRING_1:STRING_2:STRING_3 You’re expecting two lists : One with STRING_1:STRING_2, so, the first two fields One with STRING_2:STRING_3, so, the last two fields Thus, The former list should be obtained with this regex S/R : SEARCH ^([^:\r\n]+):((?1)):((?1)) REPLACE $1:$2 The later list should be obtained with this regex S/R : SEARCH ^([^:\r\n]+):((?1)):((?1)) ( idem as above) REPLACE $2:$3 Of course, you must select the Regular expression search mode, tick the Wrap around option and, finally click on the Replace All button ! Note that, instead of posting some images via an other site, you could have simply pasted the clipboard contents of your text, directly in your post area, by using the usual Ctrl + V shortcut : it’s easier for people to test regexes against your data Even better : before pasting your text, click on the **</>**button, first, in order to insert code text ! Best regards, guy038

Now sucess, very thanks guy038 and all… Take care.

@Ekopalypse Peace, mercy and blessings of God Almighty Thank you for your response And I apologize for the delay in responding In large files, I have not tried small files But the comment of the honorable brother above, clarifies the problem Thanks again

Hello,@Michael-Vincent Regex Explanation : (?i) - modifier to make the search case-insensitive (?<=^function) - positive lookbehind to find the position immediately preceded by the sub-string function at the start of the line \s+ - matches 1+ occurrences of a white-space character \K - forget everything matched so far \w+ - matches 1+ occurrences of all the characters which fall within the character class [a-zA-Z0-9_] Add the following parser tag to the file functionList.xml <parser id="mylang" displayName="mylang_syntax"> <function mainExpr="(?i)(?<=^function)\s+\K\w+" /> </parser> I hope this information will be useful. Thank you.

@PeterJones Thanks, Peter. It shouldn’t be a problem for me to just hit the collapse command again after I’ve deleted the line. The problem is it keeps surprising me. I forget it’s going to happen! The example I gave was simplistic, but when it’s two hundred lines collapsed underneath, not just two or three, everything moves on the screen and I have to find where I was editing again in order to collapse that section. If there is a solution, I’d love to hear it. At least this exercise has made it clearer to me what’s causing it. No doubt I’ll still forget the next time I start using Notepad++, but now it should only happen once to prompt me to note what line I’m on before hitting [Delete]! … Although, thinking a little more about it, if I follow your recommendation of immediately using Ctrl+Alt+F it shouldn’t matter what section the screen is showing me, it’ll collapse at the correct point! Yippie! So you have provided a solution. Many thanks. :-)

@PeterJones Alright. Thanks.

+ BACKTRACKING CONTROL verbs - FIFTH and LAST post To conclude this study of the backtracking control verbs, here is a last example which recapitulates the different backtracking control verbs and some of their combinations. All the regexes, in the table, below, are tested against the same subject string : aaaa1bbbcccccc# •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• | REGULAR Expression | Different MATCHES | SECOND regex alternative STATUS, after FIRST try | Caret AFTER 1st try of 2ND Alt. | •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• | c+|a+\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, AFTER backtracking from LAST c to 1 | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | | | | | | c+|a++\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w++\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | NO match, as backtracking is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*FAIL)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | c+|\w+(*FAIL)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH after BACKTRACKING | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*SKIP)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*SKIP)\d|b+|# | # ( + cccccc IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | NO match, as BACTRACKING is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | c+|a+(*SKIP)(*F)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*SKIP)(*F)\d|b+|# | # ( + cccccc IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | Match FAILURE and NO match as NO backtracking | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*PRUNE)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*PRUNE)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | Alternative DISCARDED + NO match as NO backtracking | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | | | | | | c+|a+(*PRUNE)(*F)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | c+|\w+(*PRUNE)(*F)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | Match FAILURE and NO match as NO backtracking | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*COMMIT)\d|b+|# | aaaa bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*COMMIT)\d|b+|# | cccccc # ( IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | CANCELS any SUBSEQUENT attempt as NO backtracking | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | c+|a+(*ACCEPT)\d|b+|# | aaaa bbb cccccc # | MATCH of part BEFORE (*ACCEPT), in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*ACCEPT)\d|b+|# | aaaa1bbbcccccc # | MATCH of part BEFORE (*ACCEPT), in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | c+|a+(*THEN)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*THEN)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | NO match, as BACTRACKING is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• For additional information, refer to : https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.backtracking_control_verbs https://www.rexegg.com/backtracking-control-verbs.html https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2pattern.html#SEC29 https://perl.developpez.com/documentations/en/5.20.1/perlre.html#Special-Backtracking-Control-Verbs and this article on stackoverflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19992984/verbs-that-act-after-backtracking-and-failure Now, it’s up to you ! Just experiment all these backtracking control verbs and try to find out some practical uses of them ;-)) Best regards, guy038

@guy038 said in Delete line with duplicate Number: Hi, @jim-erlich and All, Many thanks for all your information ! It should be very easy to get the right solution ! The most important points are : Your file is already sorted by ascending #number And, in case of 1 duplicate line, it is located right after the original line ! Now, I don’t know how your preliminary sort behaved with numbers, separated with a space char from the # symbol ? For instance : Are lines sorted, as below ( case A ) : The dog went to the park - #4599 The cat went to the park - # 4657 The kid went to the park - #4797 The lizard went to the zoo - # 5100 The cat went to the zoo - #5120 OR Are lines sorted, like ( case B ) : The cat went to the park - # 4657 The lizard went to the zoo - # 5100 The dog went to the park - #4599 The kid went to the park - #4797 The cat went to the zoo - #5120 Indeed, the N++ sort would place the line # 10000 before the line #5000, as space code-point is smaller than code-point of a digit ! Anyway, assuming a sort, like in case A and the initial text : The dog went to the park - #4599 You went to the zoo - # 4640 He went to the park - # 4640 The cat went to the park - #4657 The kid went to the park - # 4657 The girl went to the park - #4900 The lizard went to the zoo - # 5100 The cat went to the zoo - #5100 I went to the park - #7500 We went to the zoo - #7500 They went to the park - #14000 Here is the road map : Open your file in N++ Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) SEARCH (?-s)^.+#\x20?(\d+)\R(?=.+#\x20?\1) REPLACE Leave EMPTY Tick the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click once on the Replace All button or several times on the Replace button Voila ! You should get your expected list : The dog went to the park - #4599 He went to the park - # 4640 The kid went to the park - # 4657 The girl went to the park - #4900 The cat went to the zoo - #5100 We went to the zoo - #7500 They went to the park - #14000 Note that if your sort is rather like in case B, it shouldn’t be be difficult to get, again, the case A order and run the regex S/R, afterwards ;-)) Next time, if everything was OK, I’ll explain how this regex S/R works ! Best Regards, guy038 Flawless… absolutely amazing. You don’t understand how thankful I am for your detailed and correct response. This is a whole new language for me and I am amazed. thank you again.

I think we can consider this question closed. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

@Terry-R said in How can i sort out several letters from one word: or do you wish to remove/replace the found My bad, I see you do want to remove, so the replace function would work with the “Replace With” field left blank. Search mode would need to be “regular expression”. Terry

@moon6969 yes I see, I guess some kind of notification, as you wrote, is needed here. The wording NPPN_PARAMETERS_CHANGED might be a bit misleading as the mono-instance is still reporting its parameters correctly. Maybe NPPN_DIFFERENT_INSTANCE_MERGED? Native speakers - what do you suggest? :-)

@rms661 said in Takenote plugin: Don’t know if i can edit subject to add “Solved”, but will try I don’t think so, but you last post serves that purpose. Happy to help! Cheers.

As a follow-on, this decade-old SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4265748/search-in-html-source-with-google gives some links to search engines that are designed to look at the HTML code, not just the text; I don’t know if any of them are still around, but it’s worth a try.

@Jozsef-Szasz-Fabian Is there a debug possibility to see what’s causing the freeze? You can use a tool like procmon to see what is going on. Could it be that, at startup, you open network files? Is the network available at that time?

@GreG-Gregsn I did a search and found this. If this is what you have installed, then there is a readme in the zip telling you what it will do. In addition there are a install, replacer and uninstall batch. And as said, this is a plugin developed by someone else it is not part of the official npp application.

Hello guy038, Many thanks! By default, the files are sorted by view ( 2nd view first ) and by their ID number ( from 0, I presume ) After a first click on the Name header, all files are sorted alphabetically, in ascending order After a second click on the Name header, all files are sorted alphabetically, in descending order After a third click on the Name header, all files are sorted, again, according to the default ! And so on … So, I guess, the files cannot be moved manually, e.g. by dragging a single file to another position. Great! Thank you very much for the plugin, looks very good. I just will installed it.

Thank you, it works :)

@Michael-Memphis said in Compare two files and delete differences: I need to match file one to file two and delete the non-matching lines I don’t use plugins, of which there are quite a few, and maybe one of those might have what you are looking for. However I would do it as follows. For the file with ONLY account numbers, append an a to the account number. For the file with other additional information append a b to the account number and if required copy that account number (with b) to the front of the line. Combine both files into 1 new file. Sort the file numerically. Thus an account with “a” would appear before the corresponding line from file #2 (which has a b appended to account number). Use a regular expression (regex) to remove all lines with the a appended or a b line where there is no corresponding a line. This can be completed in either 1 or 2 regexes. Also remove the appended b to clean up those lines. The result will be a new file #2. However the caveat is that now the file will have accounts in possibly a different order to what they were initially before combining and sorting. This can be overcome by additional steps in the process. You will note that I haven’t provided any regexes, as you haven’t provided any examples of how file 1 and 2 look. I’m not suggesting providing real data (possible confidentiality issues) but as the regexes can only be matched to real data we do need examples of how the data looks in order to better support you (replace some real data with dummy info of the same type). Please read the FAQ, primarily the post titled: FAQ Desk: Request for Help without sufficient information to help you Whilst this post refers more to problems running Notepad++, the use of codes to insert examples in your post will be of help. Terry

@Stefan-Pecen Replace In Files has always (or for a really long time) had a confirmation popup, when used interactively or via macros. Replace All in All Opened Documents has recently (7.8.8) been given a confirmation popup, probably due to users complaining that it is an operation that is easily invoked by mistake. Perhaps for both of these commands, if running via macro, there should be no confirmation? You’d have to confirm while recording the macro, that should be enough to give you the hint that the operation should be used with care. There is no “setting” governing this behavior. If you’d like to make a feature request, you need to do that by following instructions HERE.