Add new lines after matching lines (was:'Hello ALL')

Rajeev Gupta

I want to search some variable data that I can do but I have to and new line keeping Old search value remain same.
e.g. -
set @queryName = ‘XXXX’ – Where XXXX is variable
New replaced value should be - like below string

set @queryName = ‘XXXX’
IF X = Y Then (I have to add new line followed by search string)

Thanks in advance

Ekopalypse

@Rajeev-Gupta said in Hello ALL,:

I’m not 100% sure I understand your request but from the example
you’ve given this might do it

find what:(set @queryName = '.+'\h*\R)
repalce with:$1IF X = Y Then

PeterJones

@Rajeev-Gupta :

@Ekopalypse has provided a first level suggestion, and we would need clarification to get a better answer than that. Though if I had been making my guess, I think you want something like:

find = (?-s)set @queryName = '(.*)'\h*(?:(\R)|\z)\K
replace = (?2:\r\n)IF X=Y then\r\n something '$1' different\r\n

compared to Eko’s reply, I understood you to want to grab the XXXX contents and reuse it. I also made sure that if the final line in the file matched, but didn’t have a newline, it will still do the replacement. So if your file were exactly two lines long, with no newline at the end of the second line:

set @queryName = 'YYYY'
set @queryName = 'XXXX'

it would become

set @queryName = 'YYYY'
IF X=Y then
    something 'YYYY' different
set @queryName = 'XXXX'
IF X=Y then
    something 'XXXX' different

As an aside: unfortunately, your topic title with the typ of “Hell” instead of “Hello” has significantly changed the tone of your topic title with expected content including fiery condemnation, which I doubt is what you were going for. :-) Unfortunately, original posters cannot edit the name of their Topic, so we need an admin to step in. However, if you have a suggestion for a more-meaningful title then “Hello All”, it would be helpful. Our resident forum admin @guy038 should be able to re-title it to “Hello All”, or whatever you suggest. (Actually, my default suggestion would be “Add new lines after matching lines, including some data from the match”. But really, it should be up to @Rajeev-Gupta)

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones

What is the significance of the \K at the very end of your find regex?

PeterJones

It resets the match, so that I didn’t have to include an $1 at the beginning to replace the originally-matched line with itself.

(match) -> $1NEW is equivalent to (match)\K -> NEW – both will just append NEW after the original match.

Thanks for prompting me to explain that better.

Also, since the OP hasn’t seen my boilerplate yet, some advice for @Rajeev-Gupta
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Help us help you:
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Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Hello ALL,:

It resets the match, so that I didn’t have to include an $1 at the beginning to replace the originally-matched line with itself.
(match) -> $1NEW is equivalent to (match)\K -> NEW – both will just append NEW after the original match.

Ah, nice one. I don’t think I’ve seen that usage of \K before.

PeterJones

I picked up the \K-for-add-after-match idiom from @guy038 and/or @Terry-R somewhere along the way, and it’s started to stick to my regexes.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones

It turns the entire match into a zero-length assertion. But, it is worth pointing out that it only works if you are doing a “Replace All” and not an interactive “FindNext-then-Replace”.

Rajeev Gupta

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for reply – Its typo mistake - Extremply sorry for that

I will explain in detail - I have multiple files around 400 where I have to Add new line code for example

In one file it is - set @queryName = ‘InsertCNameforLessThan15’;
and other file it set @queryName = ‘InsertCNameforLessThan20’;
any other file set @queryName = ‘Table Update’;

So set @queryName = ‘Table Update’;
this value is dynamic
I dont want to change anything in this string I have to add some code after this line

like - 1 – set @queryName = ‘InsertCNameforLessThan15’;
if @DebugMode > 1
begin
********************
END

similer for others
set @queryName = ‘InsertCNameforLessThan20’;
if @DebugMode > 1
begin
*********
END

Hope now its very clear to you - -

Thanks
And again sorry for wrongly word.

PeterJones

@Rajeev-Gupta ,

Hope now its very clear to you

You apparently didn’t read in my boilerplate where I explained how to mark the data as code using the </> button that’s on the toolbar when you are writing your post. It makes it much easier to know for sure what your data is without the forum mangling characters, and to distinguish your narrative from your data. Please use that.

Further, though you used more words to explain, what you didn’t do is say whether one or both of our solutions works for you.

Also, that semicolon is new information, which changes the regex. If you want helpful answers, you need to give us representative examples of your data, or you are going to have to be willing to edit the regex to meet your needs. And if you ask more questions, you will have to tell us what didn’t work for you (ie, did it not match anything? or did it match something, but not give the exact replacement you expected? or …)

Please help us help you by formatting the text as has been requested, and giving us example before and after data, without changing the expectations every post.

If I modify @Ekopalypse’s expression to include the semicolon and to use your more-specific replacement example:

find = (?-s)(set @queryName = '.+';\h*\R) – I added (?-s) to enforce .-does-not-match-newline, and added the semicolon that you didn’t tell us about.
replace = $1if @DebugMode > 1\r\nBEGIN\r\n********\r\nEND\r\n – I changed the IF statement, and included BEGIN/END wrappers

It turned the document:

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15';
blah
blah

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20';
halb
halb

into

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15';
if @DebugMode > 1
BEGIN
********
END
blah
blah

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20';
if @DebugMode > 1
BEGIN
********
END
halb
halb

Please notice how using the </> button has put the text into a plaintext box, and the ASCII quotes '...' do not get turned into smartquotes ‘...’, so it’s a more-accurate representation of your data.

Using Eko’s as the base, I was able to generate something that I think meets your expectations, assuming that **** isn’t supposed to include anything from the original match.

Using mine as the base,

find = (?-s)set @queryName = '(.*)';\h*(?:(\R)|\z)\K
replace = (?2:\r\n)if @DebugMode > 1\r\nBEGIN\r\n***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match = '$1' *****\r\nEND\r\n

(if we haven’t made it clear in our answers, all of these answers assume ☑ regular expression is enabled)

For my regex, modified for semicolon ; and your more-specific replacement, the *** will be able to include the text from inside your queryName string, so

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15';
blah
blah

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20';

which has the last line end with no newline character, will become

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan15';
if @DebugMode > 1
BEGIN
***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match =  'InsertCNameforLessThan15' *****
END
blah
blah

set @queryName = 'InsertCNameforLessThan20';
if @DebugMode > 1
BEGIN
***** this allows your replacement to embed the matching string from the match =  'InsertCNameforLessThan20' *****
END

Both of these meet your expressed needs, and you should have been able to figure out how to put the semicolon after the closing ' to make it match for you.

At this point, I am done with freebies for you. If you show more effort – properly formatting your post so the data comes through, giving us representative data, telling us whether or not ours work, and what isn’t right (for example, saying “when I tried it with data xyz, your expression made it pdq, but I wanted pdqu; I tried modifying the regex to rr;r, because I thought adding the semicolon would make it match more accurately, but that made it say pdqv, which still isn’t quite what I wanted”) – if you show that level of effort, so that we can tell you’re trying to learn from us rather than mooch off us, then I’ll be willing to answer more well-formed questions about this regex. If you don’t, well, we’ve given enough that assuming your data was correct, it will work for you.

Rajeev Gupta

@PeterJones said in Add new lines after matching lines (was:'Hello ALL'):

(?-s)set @queryName = '(.)';\h(?:(\R)|\z)\K

Hi PeterJones – Thanks a lot for your valuable time, your solution working successfully, I am new here but it’s quite interesting to learn regex.

:) Thanks you Sir