help on a formula, please?

harry reid

Hi, I need some help please.

I asked a question some time back on this site, and now i need another answer.

take this setup for example:

BEGIN “[i 0]” Type Wife Age 7200.000 SkinColour 0x000000ff END
BEGIN “[i 1]” Type Son Age 7200.000 SkinColour 0x000000ff END
BEGIN “[i 2]” Type Tree SubType 5 Pos.x 10.49121 Pos.y 111.7811 Age 7200.000 END
BEGIN “[i 3]” Type Tree SubType 2 Pos.x 13.77533 Pos.y 34.22266 Age 7200.000 END

someone already told me how to modify the “Age” of a “Tree” earlier…
? Open the Replace dialog ( CTRL + H )
? Select the Regular expression search mode
? Preferably, check the Match case option
? Check the Wrap around option, if necessary
? In the Find What zone, type Age \K.+(?= END)
Remark : There a space, before the word Age AND after it, as well as before the word END !
? In the Replace with zone, type, simply, the string 7200.000
? Click on the Replace All button
Et voilà !

but HERE IS THE QUESTION: how do i alter the steps to make sure it only includes the “Tree” Age??

harry reid

no one knows how to search and replace the age values in the last two “Tree” lines only??

Claudia Frank

Is there a reason why having the same topic open twice??
This isn’t very kind, isn’t it.

Cheers
Claudia

guy038

Hello Harry,

I’m the one, who posted this reply to Clearinghouse Forsale, three months ago, about ! Refer to the link below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/10848/need-some-help-with-find-and-replace/3

And indeed, reading again this old post, I just realize that I didn’t pay enough attention to the line :

now as you see, i have alot of lines that state begin…type tree…age ##### end

So, the replacement should occur, ONLY IF the lines contain the word Tree, before the word Age !

In that case, just change the search regex as :

 Tree .* Age \K.+(?= END$)

REMARKS :

There a space, BEFORE and AFTER the words Tree and Age, and a space BEFORE the last word END !
I also added the $ symbol, to be sure that we search for the word END, at the very end of each line

NOTES :

This time, the search regex is looking, FIRST, for any text, in a same line, between a first occurrence of the word Tree and a last occurrence of the word Age ( Tree .* Age )
Due to the \K form, this previous match is, then, forgotten by the regex engine
Next, it tries to match a non empty list of characters (.+)
But, ONLY IF that list is followed with a space and the word END, which ends the current line ( (?= END$) ). So it selects the exact number, only, between the word Age and the keyword END !

Best Regards,

guy038