How to add asterisk to a list of filenames and make it a line

[Sunil Kumar]

Hello.

I’ve a list of file names (about 4000).

For example:
A-67569
H-67985
J-87657
K-85897
.
.
.

I need to put asterisk before and after each file name. And make it a line format.

Example:

A-67569 H-67985 J-87657 K-85897 …

Note that there is a space between filenames.

How can I do it?

Please advise.

Thanks

[Sunil Kumar]

After I posted, I noticed it’s not allowing to show the asterisks I put before and after the filenames. So please look at the pic in the link.

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Thanks

[guy038]

Hello @sunil-kumar and All,

Not difficult with regular expressions ! So :

• Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?-s)(.+)\R

REPLACE *\1*\x20

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• Move your cursor to the beginning of your list of files

• Click several times on the Replace button or once, only, on the Replace All button

Voilà !

Notes :

• As usual, the (?-s) modifier means that the regex dot character ( . ) represents a single standard character

• Then, the part (.+) stands for any non-empty range of consecutive standard characters, which is stored as group1, as embedded in parentheses

• The last part, \R matches any kind of line-break ( \r\n, \n or \r )

• In replacement, we rewrite an asterisk, followed by the filename ( group1 ), followed, again, with an asterisk and, finally, with a space character ( \x20 )

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

A small drawback is that the last file, of the unique line, is, of course, followed with a space char, too !