Put 2 single quotation marks around a number

Doug Tatom

I have text files that have numbers 1 2 3 etc. I would like to do a find/replace that find the numbers then puts 2 single quotation around that number. Is this possible to do in Notepad++. Or, is there a better simpler solution to do this?

Thanks for any help!!!

PeterJones

@Doug-Tatom

The naive interpretation of what you stated:

FIND = \d+
find one or more digit characters in a row
REPLACE = '$0'
replace it with a single quote, the contents of the match, and a single quote
SEARCH MODE = regular expression

Unfortunately, with how little you told us, I was not able to protect that expression against edge cases. If you give us better examples (see the italics below), you will get better answers

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