@PeterJones That’s run through great now, thank you. :)

@resonant-mind and All, Can you meditate, for a moment, on this French proverb: A bad worker always has bad tools ! BR guy038

@guy038 said in Replacing text from x to y: So the correct regex Confirmed. In hindsight I should’ve spotted it myself – every instance of backslash-leftbracket on this site should be treat with suspicion and caution.

@Tom-Grisafe said in Search Multiple Columns: Any good site that completely explains Reg Expressions with Examples. Yes. The FAQ for regular expressions has plenty. I linked this to you already, in my first reply to you.

@Ahu-Lee , “double Ctrl+F” carried no special meaning under the older revisions of Notepad++. It was two distinct Ctrl+F sequences that carried two different meanings, depending on context: the first Ctrl+F brought the Find dialog to the front, and once the dialog was in from, the next Ctrl+F it heard told it to re-center. It just didn’t require any extra delay between the two Ctrl+F’s, so in your mind, you stored it as double-Ctrl+F … but it was two distinct keystrokes in the logic of Notepad++. The current v8.1.3-and-later behavior is that the first Ctrl+F brings the Find dialog to the forefront, and any subsequent Ctrl+F in that dialog activate the Find tab in that dialog. Alan’s suggestion is that the first Ctrl+F should bring the Find dialog to the forefront, and any subsequent Ctrl+F in that dialog should “check if the Find tab is active; if not active, then activate the Find tab in the Find dialog; if it is already active, then re-center the dialog”.

@Robin-Cruise said in Regex: How to turn more words in the line as if they were seen in the mirror?: For example, try yourself to replace this text, you will see that you have to shorten it: Nope, did not need to shorten it, changed all the 2 (or more) letter words. Here is the result: So that was 90 changes made. I recall from previous posts finding solutions for you forum members have often had problems getting you to understand the need for accuracy in copying the expressions we supply. And also issues with getting you to actually supply examples where issues occur. I can only reiterate those sentiments, you do need to be accurate and provide good examples when you find issues. The above example you provided was not a problem when I tested it. Terry

I’ve been able to get the job done, using the suggestions by guy038, which seems the simplest for me. ( SEARCH (?-si)^(.+#0A5D00.+)[/b] REPLACE $1 … ) Anyhow, thank you both for taking the trouble to help. With best wishes

@Polar-Bear The cake is fully baked, wonderful scents are coming out of the kitchen, go to other thread here as mentioned by @PeterJones in his post above: This conversation was continued in “Deleting a group of characters in lines with same beginning and ending, but different in between (re-post)”.

Hello, @ryan-mclaughlin, @peterjones and All, We must take care whether the ranges between "........." may or not contain comma(s), themselves ! if we consider the general case, where : The field separator is the comma character Some fields are surrounded by doubles quotes, containing possible commas or could be empty fields ( "") Some fields do not contain any double-quote and could be empty too The field to delete is the last field of each row, possibly followed with a comma Then, the following regex S/R is the right solution, especially when the total number of fields of a row is inferior to the number of the field to delete !! SEARCH (?-s)^(?:"[^"\r\n]*",|[^",\r\n]*,){N}\K(?:"[^"\r\n]*",?|[^",\r\n]*,?)    where N is the number of fields right before the field to delete REPLACE Leave EMPTY Tick preferably the Wrap around option Click only on the Replace All button Test it against this two-lines text : "ClientNumber","","First,Name",123456789,"Last,Name",2021-12-31,"Gender","","Email","AddressLine1",,"1,234.56","PhoneNo","ApprovedDate",01-34-56-78,Field to delete,"ClientDischargeDate","Case Manager(EMPID)", "ClientNumber","","First,Name",123456789,"Last,Name",2021-12-31,"Gender","","Email","AddressLine1",,"1,234.56","PhoneNo","ApprovedDate",01-34-56-78,Last field to delete, Note that field 12 ( "1,234.56" ) contains a decimal number with a comma separator => I surrounded this field with double-quotes to keep its meaning Best Regards, guy038

@Ekopalypse said in lexing/styling with PythonScript: as provided in the examples with PS Ah. I didn’t even think to look there, but yes I see some, e.g. ColumnLexer, LogFileLexer. These should get me where I need to go! Thanks, all.

@Alan-Kilborn Putting a ^ at the beginning of every regex AND’ed sections has reallllllly fixed the complexity problem! thank you sooooo much!!

Hi, @stephan-romhart, @terry-r and All, Oooooh, Stephan, I see ! Actually, it’s the comments, themselves, that are the objects to look for ;-)) Then, just for your information, here is a shorter version of the two regexes, within the css_comment.xml file contents : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ================================================ [ CSS comments ] --> <parser id="css_comment" displayName="CSS" commentExpr=""> <function mainExpr="/\*{2,3}(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+\*/" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+" /> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus> With the added line, in the configuration file overrideMap.xml : <association id= "css_comment.xml" langID= "20"/> As the default CSS association is : <!-- <association id= "css.xml" langID= "20"/> --> Note that the added line, in the overrideMap.xml file, is not mandatory. But, in that case, you must rename the css_comment.xml file as css.xml ! BR guy038

@Ariel-Eduardo-Gonzalez Try to read the release notes when you upgrade to a new version, to get a feeling for new features and settings that have been added – it could save you time as you wouldn’t need to ask and could get back to being productive right away.

@Dean-Davis62 , Notepad++ does not automatically insert newlines (CRLF) at the boundary as you type. However, after you are done typing (either your whole document or a specific section thereof), you can use Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines, which as the docs say will split (add newlines) at the rightmost vertical edge boundary. (You can limit what text the Split applies to by selecting text before running Split Lines.)

@guy038 , Ah, yeah: I had avoided the S/R in the macro because I didn’t think of ticking the “in selection”. Good idea. @fly-wire , My solution is okay; but if you want to preserve your clipboard you should use @guy038’s solution, because mine will replace the contents of the clipboard with your selected text, whereas the search-and-replace macro does not use the clipboard, so your old clipboard contents will still be available for pasting later.

@Alan-Kilborn For me Python, is a dark forest.

Great!! Thanks! I tried searching in the forum beforehand but I had found nothing. Works fine!

I must use the Installed Version of Notepad++, not the Portable Version as to work. Lest other readers of this thread believe it, it is not true. I made a Python script Well, how exactly did you do this? If you did Plugins > Python Script > New Script, and give your script a name and some lines of code, after you Save it for the first time you can go to Plugins > Python Script > Scripts and it will be shown there. However, if you create a new .py file in the ...\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\ folder in some other way, it will not show up in the menus until after you restart Notepad++. Using the New Script method, there’s an automatic way for the plugin to know to modify the menus right away. Using any other method – how could it know? At startup of N++ (and thus the plugin), it scans the scripts folder to build the menus the initial time, so it finds all existing scripts at that time.

@Chris-Chris Yea, for sure read and follow the template for posting such questions!

@Ronald-Koons , Sorry, I don’t believe it does. However, if another Compare Plugin user knows differently and can show us how, great!