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    • EkopalypseE
      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by

      @Alan-Kilborn

      :-D if it is not of interest then we minimized wasting space :-D

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones
        last edited by PeterJones

        @Alan-Kilborn said in One line per 1000 items in a macro?:

        LOL, what’s with all the base64?

        This time, primarily for space, and because my Perl solution was technically off-topic for the Forum (*), so didn’t want to clutter for others. Often, I will also use base64 when I think the OP hasn’t shown any effort, but since @sepodele is a first-time poster, and showed effort by pasting the existing macro, that wasn’t the case here.

        (*: if I’d had the time to polish it up with my nearly-ready Win32::Mechanize::NotepadPlusPlus Perl module commands, and make it work with the files inside Notepad++, rather than just a command-line Perl script, it would’ve been more on-topic. If I can find time today or this weekend to do that, I will post it here and use it as an example of how to use my Perl module.)

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones
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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @PeterJones
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            @PeterJones said in One line per 1000 items in a macro?:

            If I can find time today

            For Perl users: install Win32::Mechanize:;NotepadPlusPlus into your Perl instance from the github repo (sorry, not quite ready for official CPAN release). (Note that Perl 32-vs-64bit must match Notepad++ 32-vs-64bit)

            Run the following script with your list of lines (doesn’t even have to be a named or saved file) in the active Notepad++ editor window. Results are equivalent to @Ekopalypse’s PythonScript.

            use warnings;
            use strict;
            
            use Win32::Mechanize::NotepadPlusPlus qw/:main/;
            
            my @lines = split /\R|\0/, editor()->getText();
            
            my $max_lines = 5;  # change this to 1000 or whatever value you want to have
            my $sql = "select field1, field2, field3 from table1\n";
            my $template = "where name in (%s)\n";
            
            my $i = 0;
            while ($i <= $#lines) {
                my $j = $i + $max_lines - 1;
                $j = $#lines if $j > $#lines;
            
                $sql .= sprintf $template, join ',', map {qq('$_')} @lines[$i .. $j];
                $template = "or name in (%s)\n" if $i==0;
                $i += $max_lines;
            }
            print STDERR $sql;
            
            editor->beginUndoAction();
            editor->setText($sql);
            editor->endUndoAction();
            

            (sorry for the deleted post; my first copy still had editor1 (which I was using for debug – so it didn’t matter if I left my script editor as the focus, it would always go to the left editor) rather than editor (which will always use the active editor window)

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            • guy038G
              guy038
              last edited by guy038

              Hello, @sepodele, @peterjones, @ekopalypse and All,

              Many thanks, @peterjones and @ekopalypse, for finding a solution to the @sepodele problem, in your area of expertise ;-))

              Also, I will try to find a search/replacement in my field, as well !


              First, let’s build our list of numbers :

              • Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

              • Hit the Enter key once

              • Move back to the very beginning

              • Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

              • SEARCH (\R)

              • REPLACE $0$0

              • Select the Regular expression search mode

              • Hit, repeatedly, on the Replace All button or use several times the Alt + A shortcut

              => Each time, the number of empty lines created increases by a power of 2. That is to say that, after 10 processes, you should get 1024 empty lines ( = 2^10 )

              • Move back to the very beginning, if necessary

              • Open the Column Editor ( Edit > Column Editor... ) or ( Alt + C )

              • Select the Number to insert option

              • Type in the value 1 in the 3 fields

              • Do not tick the Leading zeros option ( IMPORTANT )

              • Select the Dec format

              • Click on the OK button

              => You get a list of numbers from 1 to 1025


              Now, let’s build the suitable regex S/R to mimic the @peterjones and @ekopalypse solutions. Let’s suppose that you want to separate this list in blocks of 99 elements. Then, use the following regex S/R :

              SEARCH ((1)|(\d*99)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              REPLACE (?2select field1, field2, field3 from table1\5where name in \()'\1'(?5(?3\)\5or name in \(:,):\)\r\n)

              • Tick the Wrap Around option

              • Select the Regular expresion search mode

              • Click on the Replace All button

              Et voilà, magic, isn’t it !!!

              For people using Unix files, simply delete the \r, at the end of the replace expression

              To split the list in blocks of 100 elements use the search regex ((1)|(\d*00)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              To split the list in blocks of 999 elements use the search regex ((1)|(\d*999)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              To split the list in blocks of 1,000 elements use the search regex ((1)|(\d*000)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              To split in blocks of 499 elements, use the search regex ((1)|(\d*499|\d*999)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              To split in blocks of 500 elements, use the search regex ((1)|(\d*500|\d*000)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))

              Whatever the search regex used, the replace regex does not change !


              Notes :

              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Search ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              ((1)|(\d*99)|\d+)\x20*(\R\Z|\z|(\R))
              
              
              Group 1 = ((1)|(\d*99)|\d+) = CURRENT number, without POSSIBLE trailing SPACE characters
              
                  Group 2 = (1)           = The number '1', ONLY
              
                  Group 3 = (\d*99)       = CURRENT number, with the LAST TWO digits = '9'
              
                  \d+                     = CURRENT number, WITHOUT the LAST TWO digits = '9'
              
              \x20*                       = Possible SPACE characters, after CURRENT number
              
              Group 4 = (\R\Z|\z|(\R))    = Any kind of Line ENDING
              
                  \R\Z                    = Any Line-BREAK at END of the list
              
                  \z                      = The VERY END of the file, after the LAST number
              
                  Group 5 = (\R)          = Any Line-BREAK, NOT at END of the list
              
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Replacement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              
              (?2select field1, field2, field3 from table1\5where name in \()'\1'(?5(?3\)\5or name in \(:,):\)\r\n)
              
              
              (?2                                                         # IF group 2 ( Number 1 )
              select field1, field2, field3 from table1\5where name in \( #     WRITE 'select .... table1' + Line BREAK + 'where name in ('
              )                                                           # END group 2
              
              '\1'                                                        # Then, in ALL cases, WRITE a SINGLE quote + CURRENT number + SINGLE quote
              
              (?5                                                         # IF group 5 (Line-BREAK, NOT at END of the list )
              (?3                                                         #     IF group 3 ( CURRENT number with the LAST TWO digits are '9' )
              \)\5or name in \(                                           #         WRITE ')' + Line BREAK + 'or name in ('
              :                                                           #     ELSE
              ,                                                           #        WRITE ','
              )                                                           #     END group 3
              :                                                           # ELSE
              \)\r\n                                                      #     WRITE ')' + Line BREAK
              )                                                           # END group 5
              

              Best Regards,

              guy038

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              • sepodeleS
                sepodele @guy038
                last edited by

                @guy038 I’m quite overwhelmed by the response to my question but I’d like to try your approach first since it was regex I used to get my macro in the first place.

                I realize now that I should have specified my wish better in the original post because your solution is made for only digits. What I want/need is for it to comma separate any value on one line. Here are two examples:

                512141
                123123
                129391

                ASDKJASD-222
                ASDLKJ 222
                ASDLKJASD

                Should become:

                ‘512141’, ‘123123’, ‘129391’
                ‘ASDKJASD-222’, ‘ASDLKJ 222’, ‘ASDLKJASD’

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                • guy038G
                  guy038
                  last edited by guy038

                  Hello, @sepodele and All,

                  Sorry for my late reply (Yesterday, I accompanied an instructor from the French Ski School with children from 6-7 years old, all beginners… And… it’s not as easy as it seems ;-)) Most of them seem to be a bit in the moonlight, looking everywhere else… except the monitor ! They are also quickly tired, with many falls without gravity, luckily !)


                  So, here is my second, more general, attempt, with the following rules :

                  • To begin the select .......... section, place the caret, at least, 2 blank lines above the comments line or above the first element of list(s)

                  • You may add some comment lines to identify the different lists. A comment line will always begins a line with 3 sharp symbols. These possible ###.... comments must be preceded with a blank line and may be followed by any number of blank lines, even none

                  • To begin a new or name in(..., ..., ..., ...) line, simply add, at least, 1 blank line between items of current list

                  • The last element, of the last list, must be followed with a final blank line


                  For instance, let’s imagine the input text, below :

                  
                  
                  ### Your examples :
                  
                  512141
                  123123
                  129391
                  
                  ASDKJASD-222
                  ASDLKJ 222
                  ASDLKJASD
                  
                  
                  ### A TEST :
                  This is
                  just a
                  small test
                  
                  ### French regions :
                  
                  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
                  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
                  Bretagne
                  Centre-Val de Loire
                  Corse
                  Grand Est
                  Hauts-de-France
                  Île-de-France
                  Normandie
                  Nouvelle-Aquitaine
                  Occitanie
                  Pays de la Loire
                  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
                  Guadeloupe
                  Martinique
                  Guyane
                  La Réunion
                  Mayotte
                  
                  ### List of numbers
                  
                  37
                  38
                  39
                  40
                  41
                  42
                  43
                  44
                  45
                  46
                  
                  47
                  48
                  49
                  50
                  51
                  
                  52
                  53
                  54
                  55
                  56
                  57
                  
                  
                  ### States of America :
                  
                  Alabama
                  Alaska
                  Arizona
                  Arkansas
                  California
                  Colorado
                  Connecticut
                  Delaware
                  Florida
                  Georgia
                  Hawaii
                  Idaho
                  Illinois
                  Indiana
                  Iowa
                  Kansas
                  Kentucky
                  Louisiana
                  Maine
                  Maryland
                  Massachusetts
                  Michigan
                  Minnesota
                  Mississippi
                  Missouri
                  Montana
                  Nebraska
                  Nevada
                  New Hampshire
                  New Jersey
                  New Mexico
                  New York
                  North Carolina
                  North Dakota
                  Ohio
                  Oklahoma
                  Oregon
                  Pennsylvania
                  Rhode Island
                  South Carolina
                  South Dakota
                  Tennessee
                  Texas
                  Utah
                  Vermont
                  Virginia
                  Washington
                  Washington D.C.
                  West Virginia
                  Wisconsin
                  Wyoming
                  

                  With the following regex S/R :

                  SEARCH (?-s)(###.*\R+)|\h*(.+?)\h*\R(\R+)?(\z)?|(^\R){2,}

                  REPLACE (?1:(?5select field1, field2, field3 from table1\r\nwhere name in \(:'\2'(?4\)\r\n:(?3\)\r\nor name in \(:,))))

                  It would result the following output text :

                  select field1, field2, field3 from table1
                  where name in ('512141','123123','129391')
                  or name in ('ASDKJASD-222','ASDLKJ 222','ASDLKJASD')
                  or name in ('This is','just a','small test')
                  or name in ('Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes','Bourgogne-Franche-Comté','Bretagne','Centre-Val de Loire','Corse','Grand Est','Hauts-de-France','Île-de-France','Normandie','Nouvelle-Aquitaine','Occitanie','Pays de la Loire','Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur','Guadeloupe','Martinique','Guyane','La Réunion','Mayotte')
                  or name in ('37','38','39','40','41','42','43','44','45','46')
                  or name in ('47','48','49','50','51')
                  or name in ('52','53','54','55','56','57')
                  or name in ('Alabama','Alaska','Arizona','Arkansas','California','Colorado','Connecticut','Delaware','Florida','Georgia','Hawaii','Idaho','Illinois','Indiana','Iowa','Kansas','Kentucky','Louisiana','Maine','Maryland','Massachusetts','Michigan','Minnesota','Mississippi','Missouri','Montana','Nebraska','Nevada','New Hampshire','New Jersey','New Mexico','New York','North Carolina','North Dakota','Ohio','Oklahoma','Oregon','Pennsylvania','Rhode Island','South Carolina','South Dakota','Tennessee','Texas','Utah','Vermont','Virginia','Washington','Washington D.C.','West Virginia','Wisconsin','Wyoming')
                  

                  I hope my example speaks for itself !

                  Remark : If you want, in my example, to process, only, the last list of the states of America, simply put the caret 2 blank lines, above that list ( so, right under number 57 ) and run the regex S/R. Of course, in that case, the Wrap around option will be un-ticked, to prevent for processing from beginning of file !

                  Best Regards,

                  guy038

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                  • sepodeleS
                    sepodele @guy038
                    last edited by

                    @guy038 Forgive me. I see I’ve failed to explain my wish accurately again. <insert gif of facepalm here>

                    When I wrote my two examples I didn’t mean that there would be two different lists in one N++ tab. It was just to illustrate that it would sometimes be numbers and sometimes characters. I still need it to separate into a new line for every 1000 items and not after a blank line.

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                    • guy038G
                      guy038
                      last edited by guy038

                      Hi, @sepodele and All,

                      Ah…, Indeed ! I was a bit annoyed to process your two lists, below, simultaneously, as I needed a way to know where to finish one line or name in(..., ...) and begin a new one and I decided, on my own, to do the change on any blank line

                      512141
                      123123
                      129391
                      
                      ASDKJASD-222
                      ASDLKJ 222
                      ASDLKJASD
                      

                      Now, I understand that you have, only, 1 list, which contains, generally, over 1,000 items, with various characters and that you certainly do not need any comment line at all ! So, everything is much more simple ;-))

                      We just have to consider a single list, pasted in a new N++ tab, which does not contain any line-break !


                      Now, let’s suppose, for instance, that you have the list of states of America ( 51 states ) and that you want to make a break every 10 lines

                      • Open a new N++ tab ( Ctrl + N )

                      • Paste your list in this new tab

                      • Add a final line-break ( IMPORTANT )

                      • SEARCH ^(.+\R){1,10}

                      • REPLACE \r\n$0

                      You should get the text below, with a line break added before each block of 10 lines maximum :

                      
                      Alabama
                      Alaska
                      Arizona
                      Arkansas
                      California
                      Colorado
                      Connecticut
                      Delaware
                      Florida
                      Georgia
                      
                      Hawaii
                      Idaho
                      Illinois
                      Indiana
                      Iowa
                      Kansas
                      Kentucky
                      Louisiana
                      Maine
                      Maryland
                      
                      Massachusetts
                      Michigan
                      Minnesota
                      Mississippi
                      Missouri
                      Montana
                      Nebraska
                      Nevada
                      New Hampshire
                      New Jersey
                      
                      New Mexico
                      New York
                      North Carolina
                      North Dakota
                      Ohio
                      Oklahoma
                      Oregon
                      Pennsylvania
                      Rhode Island
                      South Carolina
                      
                      South Dakota
                      Tennessee
                      Texas
                      Utah
                      Vermont
                      Virginia
                      Washington
                      Washington D.C.
                      West Virginia
                      Wisconsin
                      
                      Wyoming
                      

                      Remark : If you don’t want to bother about adding a final line-break, prefer the Peter’s solution, in the next post !


                      Then using this second regex S/R :

                      • SEARCH (?-s)\h*(.+?)\h*\R(\R+)?(\z)?|(^\R)

                      • REPLACE (?4select field1, field2, field3 from table1\r\nwhere name in \(:'\1'(?3\)\r\n:(?2\)\r\nor name in \(:,)))

                      You’ll get your expected text :

                      select field1, field2, field3 from table1
                      where name in ('Alabama','Alaska','Arizona','Arkansas','California','Colorado','Connecticut','Delaware','Florida','Georgia')
                      or name in ('Hawaii','Idaho','Illinois','Indiana','Iowa','Kansas','Kentucky','Louisiana','Maine','Maryland')
                      or name in ('Massachusetts','Michigan','Minnesota','Mississippi','Missouri','Montana','Nebraska','Nevada','New Hampshire','New Jersey')
                      or name in ('New Mexico','New York','North Carolina','North Dakota','Ohio','Oklahoma','Oregon','Pennsylvania','Rhode Island','South Carolina')
                      or name in ('South Dakota','Tennessee','Texas','Utah','Vermont','Virginia','Washington','Washington D.C.','West Virginia','Wisconsin')
                      or name in ('Wyoming')
                      

                      IMPORTANT : Of course, in your case, the break must occur after 1,000 lines. Then, simply change the first regex S/R as below :

                      • SEARCH ^(.+\R){1,1000}

                      • REPLACE \r\n$0

                      Note : You may also decide to make the break after 100 or 500 lines. Just change the first regex, accordingly ;-))

                      If everything works as you like to, I’ll explain, the regexes, next time !

                      Cheers,

                      guy038

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones
                        last edited by

                        @guy038 said in One line per 1000 items in a macro?:

                        Add a final line-break ( IMPORTANT )

                        Hmm. You just issued a challenge, because it’s not like you to make one of the critical steps be outside of a regex. :-)

                        • SEARCH ^(.+(\R|(\z))){1,10} (or 1000 for the OP requirements)
                        • REPLACE \r\n$0(?3\r\n)

                        If the last line in the file doesn’t contain a newline, it will still match for the 1-10 (or 1-1000) line groups; if there is the end-of-file instead of newline, it will add a newline at the end as well; and if the final line is an empty line, it won’t bother putting the extra newline at the end.

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                        • guy038G
                          guy038
                          last edited by guy038

                          Hi, @sepodele, @peterjones,

                          Peter, you’re right about that;-)) In fact, after posting, I wondered how the regex would react if the last item, in the list, did not end with a line-break…And, unfortunately, the last closing parenthesis was missing :-((

                          So, out of laziness, rather than reworking my second S/R, which, obviously, does not cover all cases, I admit that I opted for the easy way out, simply adding the line, below, to my previous post :

                          • Add a final line-break ( IMPORTANT )

                          But, Peter, you found a nice and correct solution by modifying the first S/R, which is easier to grasp. Thanks !

                          Cheers,

                          guy038

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @guy038
                            last edited by

                            @guy038 said in One line per 1000 items in a macro?:

                            Add a final line-break ( IMPORTANT )

                            This is the better solution when dealing with files that you “own”. Don’t beat your head against the wall trying to come up with the perfect regex for the end-of-file oddity…

                            Editorial: …Especially since Notepad++ has no native way to force adding of a line-ending right before end-of-file…grrrr…

                            But sometimes it (the regex EOF technique) IS worth thinking about when you have to process files that you either don’t “own” (meaning you can’t change them), or you have to deal with files you receive on a continual basis that maybe don’t end “well”.

                            So this is a good lead-in to a plugin I discovered recently (well, I knew about it for a long time, but just lately had a need for it): “EditorConfig” It has the ability to make it so that there is always a line-ending at end-of-file when you save (as well as some other nice features – “how many spaces is a tab”, etc.), so, at least for your own files, worrying about the right regex for handling an oddball bottom-of-file situation becomes moot. The plugin allows settings on a “project by project” (or file-by-file) basis, so it is much more encompassing than some of Notepad++'s native configuration-by-extension settings.

                            I quickly decided I love EditorConfig, for many reasons. OT: I even noticed that Visual Studio respects the configuration files I made for EditorConfig, automatically – nice. Except I noticed this when I was hacking Notepad++ source (which uses tab characters) and since my config files (created for other projects) said “no tabs!”, VS was also inserting spaces when I hit the Tab key.

                            Bottom line: EditorConfig is a good plugin, and can easily give you the “insert-line-ending-before-end-of-file” capability that Notepad++ doesn’t natively provide – in case you don’t always want to think about what happens when doing regex searches/replacements at end-of-file.

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                            • sepodeleS
                              sepodele
                              last edited by

                              Great stuff guys. It works like a charm! Thank you! :-)

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