Prefix and suffix a text entry at start of every line

Richard Avon

Hello
Enjoy Notepad++. Much appreciated.

I’m stumped. Needing to change following, for egs.
1 xxx zzz
2 aaa ddd
To
(1) xxx zzz
(2) aaa ddd

Similarly same for last entry of every line.

I have Googled to no avail.
Really appreciate help thank you.

Claudia Frank

from your provided data I would assume that you are looking for

 find what:^\d
 replace with:\($0\)

with regular expression checked.
But it might be that the find what needs to be modified if two or more digits form a number,
but I can’t say for sure as I don’t know how your data really looks like.

Cheers
Claudia

Richard Avon

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks Claudia
I’ll try this when get back to office later today.
My data is a bit more complex than shown above.
Typically
100 12°15’34" 12.562 o’stones
101 35°38’56" 17.765 p&r fence
102 84°40’10“ 25.456 bricks

And so on in similar fashion
The numbers (point numbers) at beginning of each line maybe any numeral from 1 to say 1000, and random.

Regards

Claudia Frank

@Richard-Avon

then replace “find with” with this one

 ^\d+

^ marks that it is the start of the line
\d it must be a digit
and the plus sign at the end tells that it must be at least 1 digit,
without the plus sign it is looking for exactly one digit.

Replace with is still the same.

Cheers
Claudia

Richard Avon

@Claudia-Frank
Many thanks Claudia. Brilliant.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
In much appreciation
Regards
Richard