Notepad++ Problem with sorting lines

John Destiny

Hi,
I have this line:

Line1-10 - Art
Line11-20 - Biology
Line21-30 - Film
Line31-40 - Geography
Line41-50 - History
Line51-60 - IT
Line61-70 - Science
Line71-80 - Sport

This is what I need:

Line1 - Art
Line2 - Biology
Line3 - Film
Line4 - Geography
Line5 - History
Line6 - IT
Line7 - Science
Line8 - Sport
Line9 - Art
Line10 - Biology
.
.
.
.
etc.

Alan Kilborn

@John-Destiny

I would do:

Find: ^Line\d+-\d+
Replace: Line
Search mode: Reg Expression

Then, follow that up with inserting a column of ascending digits (see the Column Editor on the View menu).

Meta Chuh

@John-Destiny

yes, @Alan-Kilborn 's suggestion seems to be the best and easiest way to do so.

if you need help on the column editor:
once you’ve run alan’s regex with “replace all”, hold the [alt] key and mark (draw) a cursor-line from the end of the first word Line to the end of the last word Line like shown at the screenshot below.

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then open column editor, select number to insert, with initial number 1 and increase by 1, and hit ok.

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after that, you list will look like this.
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Alan Kilborn

If you have a lot of lines, you may end up with space(s) between Line and the (first) number. Use the following to remove those:

Find ^Line\h+(?=\d)
Replace Line
Again, search mode is Reg Exp