Replacing partial lines

Donny Tee

I have a text file I’m editing with notepad++. It contains a list of skeleton positions for a 3D animation I am creating.

I need to replace everything in a whole line with something else, however I have multiple of these lines which have variations between them

For example:

23 -0.308254 -0.007814 0.307166 -0.110578 -0.404637 -2.460353

23 -0.769534 -0.467272 0.484695 -0.124567 -0.425321 -2.632211

23 -0.241245 -0.858433 0.008645 -0.331526 -0.865433 -2.987656

23 -0.308214 -0.526881 0.010142 -0.986212 -0.734622 -2.932811

I need to replace the content of these lines (which start with 23) and make them all into this:

23 -0.308254 -0.007814 0.307166 -0.110578 -0.404637 -2.460353

How do I do this?

Terry R

It should be fairly simple as you only need the 23 to identify the line. So we have
Find: (^23).+
Replace: \1 -0.308254 -0.007814 0.307166 -0.110578 -0.404637 -2.460353

So it finds a line with 23 at the start. The .+ refers to all other characters on the line, and this is where it doesn’t care what those characters are (in your case numbers). Those characters (numbers in your case) are replaced with the new set of numbers. The \1 brings back the starting characters, namely 23.

Terry

guy038

Hello, @donny-tee, and All,

If all your lines, beginning with the number 23, follow the same template, that’s quite easy, my President !

SEARCH (?-s)^23\x20.+

REPLACE 23 -0.308254 -0.007814 0.307166 -0.110578 -0.404637 -2.460353

Notes :

First, the (?-s) modifier means that the regex dot symbol (. ) matches a single standard character, only ( and not an EOL char )
Then the part ^23\x20 matches the number 23, followed with a space character ( you may replace \x20 with a true space )
Finally, the part .+ ( or .{1,} ) matches the non-empty remaining of each line, beginning with the number 23

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S.

It would be nice, President, if all your problems could be solved, in a similar way ;-)) Peoples and planet would just go on, living in peace !