Q: How to duplicate text with adding line between two certain words?

[Ziad Aborami]

Hello,
I’am starter and I don’t have a lot experience.

I have text file in this pattern:

<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing</span> some words

<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing else</span> another some words

<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing 1</span>another some words 1

what I want to do:
Duplcating the word between <span style=“color:darkblue”> and </span>
then put it between <span class=“bold”> and </span>
then put the duplicated result in the upper line

<span class=“bold”>some thing</span>
<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing</span> some words

<span class=“bold”>some thing else</span>
<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing else</span> another some words

<span class=“bold”>some thing 1</span>
<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing 1</span>another some words 1

That seems a little difficult
Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

[informagenie]

What you want, You can do that easly with combinaison of ctrl+c and ctrl+v

I don’t know what do you mean by duplicate…

[Ekopalypse]

@Ziad-Aborami

select regular expression mode in find/replace dialog.
find what should be <span style="color:darkblue">(.+?)</span>
and replace with would be <span class="bold">$1</span>\r\n$0

[Ziad Aborami]

@Ekopalypse Thanks very much!

That works for me :)

best wisches

[Meta Chuh]

welcome to the notepad++ community, @informagenie

What you want, You can do that easly with combinaison of ctrl+c and ctrl+v
I don’t know what do you mean by duplicate…

please do not respond to a thread, if you are not ready to give a valid or useful answer.

[Ziad Aborami]

<span class=“bold”>$1</span>\r\n$0
that puts the result in the buttom line like this

<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing</span> some words
<span class=“bold”>some thing</span>

What I need is like this

<span class=“bold”>some thing</span>
<span style=“color:darkblue”>some thing</span> some words

[Ekopalypse]

@Ziad-Aborami

not for me - I get the result like expected.

[Ziad Aborami]

@Ekopalypse Thanks for help
It works now,
I have made a mistake