Why is it that some regex match is not replaced one by one?
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I am using notepad++ for text editing.
sample text : hello,this is a test.are you ready?
search for : (?<=[a-z,.?! ])([,.?!])(?=[a-z])
replace with : \1
replace result : hello, this is a test. are you ready?
It works as intended, only if I replace them all, but if I click on replace button, nothing happens. It navigates to the next match as if I click on find.
refer to this screenshot [https://i.stack.imgur.com/4CiPY.png]
Is it a bug and what’s the solution I should try?
Thank you!
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@[username redacted] ,
Any regex that uses
\Kmatch-resets or(?<=...)/(?<!...)lookbehinds require using replace all rather than single replace actions. That’s the way it was designed, to avoid certain …confusions… that would arise with reset- and lookbehind- replacements run one-at-a-time. -
thanks for the reply. maybe this is the alternative I can think of.
([a-z,.?! ][,.?!])(?=[a-z])
it’s not perfect, but it does the job anyway :)
only downside is it matches preceding characters as well, so it looks less charming. -
can I ask one more for troubleshooting?
I wonder if I could open the document and remember the last scroll position so next time I reopen it, it straight nagivgates to where it was. -
@[username redacted]
remember the last scroll position
if you close/exit Notepad++ and reload the application, it does remember the scroll position for the active session. But no, once you close the document, it loses that scroll information.
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@[username redacted] said in Why is it that some regex match is not replaced one by one?:
I wonder if I could open the document and remember the last scroll position so next time I reopen it, it straight nagivgates to where it was.
You may find THIS to be of interest on that topic. There’s a Pythonscript there that supposedly solves this “problem”. I haven’t tried the script out yet, so I can’t fully endorse it. It’s on my evergrowing “TODO” list. :-)
