REGEX again: How can I select/mark this 3 works on a different lines

Vasile Caraus

and, please excuse me for the title. It had to be “How can I select/mark 3 words on 3 consecutive lines”. And each of the words are somewhere in the middle of lines, by tab or space.

guy038

Vasile,

I did understand that you wanted to mark the three consecutive lines of each block of lines, and not only the first one !

But, just follow my first post , on that topic :

To verify, copy, as before, my previous text in a new tab

FIRSTLY, perform the S/R, below :

REPLACE #$0

=> A sharp character, #, should be inserted at the beginning of the FIRST line of each block

SECONDLY, perform the three regexes , below, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, in the Mark dialog, by clicking on the Mark All button

SEARCH (?-s)^#.+

SEARCH (?-s)^#.+\R\K.+

SEARCH (?-s)^#(.+\R){2}\K.+

=> At the end, each line, of each block, should be marked

But, from what you said in your last post, I suppose, for instance, that, giving the example text, below :

		Text to be deleted  Recente    Text to be deleted
				bla bla			Coments			123456789
	ABCDEF	Tags bla bla bla that's the End

you would expect the resulting text :

Recente
Coments
Tags

Is my assumption correct ? If so, give me half an hour more, and I’ll post you the final regexes

Best Regards

guy038

guy038

Vasile,

Although, you have not reply to my question, yet, I suppose that I was right and here are the new regexes, to achieve such a result !

As said before, the first regex is UNCHANGED. Remember that it just marks any of the six blocks, wanted, with a special character, # ( which must not be used, yet, in your files ! ) So this first S/R is :

REPLACE #$0

=> After this global replacement, a sharp character, #, should have been inserted, at the beginning of the FIRST line of each block !

Now, perform, SUCCESSIVELY, the three S/R, below, by clicking on the Replace All button

SEARCH (?-s)^#(?:.+\R){2}\K.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

REPLACE \1

=> The third line, of each block, should have been modified

SEARCH (?-s)^#.+\R\K.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

REPLACE \1

=> The second line, of each block, should have been modified

SEARCH (?-s)^#.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

REPLACE \1

=> Finally, the first line, of each block, should have been modified

Et voilà !

IMPORTANT :

These three S/R must be run, in that EXACT order, to be sure that the temporary mark character, #, will be deleted during the last S/R, only !!
Don’t use the Replace button for these three S/R, ONLY the Replace All one !!

Cheers,

guy038

Vasile Caraus

hello guy38, I wasn’t here, sorry.
So, I test all your new regex. First, the long regex, replace by #$0 works very good.

The little problem are the next 3 SUCCESSIVELY regex. One by one. After Search and Replace with \1, I get the successful message “6 occurrences has were replaced.”

The problem is that, in fact, nothing has changed…is like nothing happen…

The last of the 3 successively regex (?-s)^#.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*, after replace with \1, removes the # sign witch I had put with the first long regex

Vasile Caraus

Oh, WORKS ! I use another example. So, excuse-me. All your regex works just fine guy38. You practically move all 3 words to the beginning of lines.

Thanks a lot

Vasile Caraus

and, I return to my old problem. Now with your help, I manage to take all 3 words to the start of the lines. The question was, how can I mark/delete something before or after those 3 words. For example:

text bla Commens
text bla bla Tags

Recente
Coments
Tags

text bla Recente
text bla bla Tags

So, you see that the words “Recente, Coments and Tags” are repeating. So, I manage to resolve my first problem: HOW TO DELETE EVERYTHING BEFORE THOSE 3 words on the 3 successively lines, included those 3 lines:

Search
((?s)((^.*)^Recente|^Coments|^Tags))(.*$)
Replace by:
Leave empty

Vasile Caraus

Now, to delete everything after those 3 words (and 3 lines) included those 3 lines

Search:
^.*(?s)^Recente|^Coments|^Tags.*[\s\S]
Replace by:
leave empty

Vasile Caraus

so, you see my friend, where I wanted to get. The single problem was that all that 3 words, were somewhere in the middle of the lines, and I didn’t know how to select those SUCCESSIVELY lines.

thanks a lot.

But If you know another 2 regex to do directly this, for deleting before and after, without adding the 3 words at the beggining at the lines, please let me know.

guy038

Vasile,

I’m just back on our forum and, after reading your post, where you said :

The problem is that, in fact, nothing has changed…is like nothing happen…

I quickly guessed why it did NOT work :-) Ah ! Again, I forgot to add this VERY IMPORTANT fact :

If your pattern regex contains one or more look-behinds AND/OR any \K form, you must, EXCLUSIVELY use the Replace All button to perform a global replacement.

DON’T use the Replace button, for a step by step replacement : it does NOTHING !!

So, for performing, correctly, my three previous regexes :

(?-s)^#(?:.+\R){2}\K.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

(?-s)^#.+\R\K.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

(?-s)^#.*(Recente|Coments|Tags).*

with replacement \1

Move the caret, before the text to change
Perform the three S/R, in that order, by clicking, EXCLUSIVELY, on the Replace All button ( Not the Replace button !! )

It should be OK

Of course, don’t forget to delete the extra # character, at the end

Cheers,

guy038

So, I updated my previous post !

Vasile Caraus

WORKS !!!

Vasile Caraus

A different nice regex looks like this. First check . match newline

Search:
.*\n([ \t]+Recente\s+Coments\s+Tags).*
REPLACE By:
$1 or \1

Don’t forget to check . match newline

This will select all that 3 words, even if are delimitaded by tab or spaces. And will delete the rest of document.
But how can I use this regex, to remove everything only before those 3 words, and another regex to remove only after those 3 words?

Vasile Caraus

or, without check . match newline

Search:
(?s).*\n([ \t]+Recente\s+Coments\s+Tags).*(.*$)
REPLACE By:
$1 or \1

Vasile Caraus

hello, I find the solutions:

So, to delete everything before those 3 words, included the 3 lines with the words:

Search:
(?s).*\n([ \t]+Recente\s+Coments\s+Tags)
Replace By:
Leave Empty

Delete everything after those 3 words included the 3 lines with the words:
Search:
(?s)([ \t]+Recente\s+Coments\s+Tags)(.*$)
Replace by:
$1