Save REGEX

Vasile Caraus

hello, is there any option to save regular expressions in the notepad++ like in GrepWin or other text editors?

guy038

Hello, Vasile,

I’m afraid that no native option exists, in N++ :-(( So, expect for the obvious idea to keep your list of favourite regexes in a text file, you should have a look to the config.xml file !

Here is, below, the interesting section FindHistory, from my OWN config.xml file :

<FindHistory nbMaxFindHistoryPath="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFilter="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFind="10" nbMaxFindHistoryReplace="10" matchWord="yes" matchCase="no" wrap="no" directionDown="yes" fifRecuisive="yes" fifInHiddenFolder="no" dlgAlwaysVisible="no" fifFilterFollowsDoc="no" fifFolderFollowsDoc="no" searchMode="2" transparencyMode="1" transparency="156" dotMatchesNewline="no">
        <Find name="(?-s)(^.*\R)\1+" />
        <Find name="\b(the|you|in)\b" />
        <Find name="^\d+A|(\R\d+B)" />
        <Find name="^\d+A" />
        <Find name="(?-i)^\d+A" />
        <Find name="(?-i)^\d+A|(\R\d+B)" />
        <Find name="\d+A|(\R\d+B)" />
        <Find name=" 106 " />
        <Find name="VK_PLUS" />
        <Find name="I love \w+ car" />
        <Replace name="\1" />
        <Replace name="?1\t" />
        <Replace name="(?1\t )" />
        <Replace name="abc$0xyz" />
        <Replace name="$0\r\n" />
        <Replace name="(?1\1)(?2 )" />
        <Replace name="(?1\1: )" />
        <Replace name="\1\r\n" />
        <Replace name="(?1n)(?2s)(?3w)(?4e)" />
        <Replace name="\1 \2 \3" />
    </FindHistory>

I suppose that changing the nbMaxFindHistoryFind AND/OR the nbMaxFindHistoryReplace parameters, from the default number 10, would work :-)) I didn’t try it, yet, anyway !

BEWARE: you must, preferably :

Close any instance of Notepad++
Open the config.xml file, with an OTHER editor than N++ ( Notepad, Wordpad, … ) , then save the changes
Re-start Notepad++

Best Regards,

guy038

Vasile Caraus

hello guy38. Yes, it’s ok. I wanted to save my special regex into notepad ++ so that not to open the file with all my regex expressions.