Mass replace in multiple files - part is same everywhere, part is different in every file

[Stanislav Elvenisko Hoferek]

Hello. Can anyone help me? I wish to mass replace strings, that have some “standard” characters, that are same in multiple files, and some specific characters, that are only in 1 file.

So i wish to change:

SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:abcdef123:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:abcdef456:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:abcdef789:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end

TO:

SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:anything:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:anything:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:anything:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end

how can i do it? using current notepad ++. Many many thanks :)

[Stanislav Elvenisko Hoferek]

also, all the files are looong. so i dont want to do the change to the end of the file, just to the end of the line.

so a file looks like:

lorem ipsum1
lorem ipsum2
SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:abcdef456:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
lorem ipsum3
lorem ipsum4

NOW I HAVE A SOLUTION:

replace this: XXXXXXXXXX.*YYYYYYYYYY
with whatever you want :) So one dot and one * is enough. Working in the middle of the files as well…

[Terry R]

@Stanislav-Elvenisko-Hoferek
I’m not sure what your second post was meant to say. Did you even try that?

My suggestion is start with 1 file opened in NPP and test what I provide. If it works the same method can also work on a bunch of files using the other tab of the Replace function called “Find in Files”.
So
Find What:(SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:)(.+?)(:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end)
Replace With:\1anything\3
This is using your terminology. Up to you to replace the strings SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:
anything and
:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
with what your actual data is. Note I did bracket the text we will replace (.+?), this is not necessary, but it won’t change the result.

Terry