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    guy038
    last edited by guy038 Sep 17, 2021, 9:08 AM Sep 17, 2021, 9:07 AM

    Hello, @victor-fansler and All,

    Here’s a solution which needs 2 consecutive regexes S/R :-)


    So, let’s start with this INPUT text that you paste in a new tab :

    Connection Lost to Camera
    Camera Name1
    Camera Name2
    Camera Name3
    Account: Customer Name
    
    Video Return
    Camera Name1
    Account: Customer Name
    
    Fatal Error
    Camera Name1
    Camera Name2
    Camera Name3
    Camera Name4
    Camera Name5
    Camera Name6
    Camera Name7
    Account: Customer Name
    
    • Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

    • SEARCH (?-s)^(.+\R)((?:.+\R)+)

    • REPLACE \2\1

    • Un-tick all the options

    • Tick the Wrap around option

    • Select the Regular expression search mode

    • Click on the Replace All button ( or several times on the Replace All button )

    => The first line of each block/set ( message ) is moved is order to be the last line of the block/set, as shown below :

    Camera Name1
    Camera Name2
    Camera Name3
    Account: Customer Name
    Connection Lost to Camera
    
    Camera Name1
    Account: Customer Name
    Video Return
    
    Camera Name1
    Camera Name2
    Camera Name3
    Camera Name4
    Camera Name5
    Camera Name6
    Camera Name7
    Account: Customer Name
    Fatal Error
    

    Then :

    • Re-open or go back to the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

    • SEARCH (?-s)^Camera .+(?=\R(?:.+\R)*(Account: .+)\R(.+))|^Account(.+\R){2}

    • REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

    • Click on the Replace All button ( or several times on the Replace All button )

      • => Each line, beginning with Camera is changed as Account: Customer Name - Camera Name - Error or Info Message

      • => And the last 2 lines of each block/set ( Account: and Error message ) are deleted from current block/set

    And you get the expected OUTPUT list :

    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name1 - Connection Lost to Camera
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name2 - Connection Lost to Camera
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name3 - Connection Lost to Camera
    
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name1 - Video Return
    
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name1 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name2 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name3 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name4 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name5 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name6 - Fatal Error
    Account: Customer Name - Camera Name7 - Fatal Error
    

    Best Regards

    guy038

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      DarthData @guy038
      last edited by Sep 17, 2021, 9:14 PM

      @guy038 Thanks, the first part works great, but the second part does not. I may not have made it clear, but the line’s “Camera Name” can be anything, they do not actually say “Camera Name”. Then once they are all combined, I will do an addition search that I can easily do, which is to remove the text "Account: " from the beginning of each line. Do a sort of the entire page to group them by Customer name/ Camera name. Again, I can handle the last two parts, just adding for the big picture, or if your solution has a way to do the additional steps in less steps overall.

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        Terry R
        last edited by Sep 17, 2021, 10:10 PM

        @Victor-Fansler said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

        . I may not have made it clear, but the line’s “Camera Name” can be anything, they do not actually say “Camera Name”.

        I have an idea, but as not on the PC I will present the concept.

        1. Combine the set together on 1 line by using the empty line between sets to identify them using a special character (or 2) when combining to be used in subsequent steps.
        2. The second regex would be run repeatedly until no changes made by copying the line to below the original, but with only the last camera name, also removing that from the original line at the same time. So not an exact copy.
        3. Tidy up the lines by formatting as required, although this may get possible in step 2.

        Terry

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          guy038
          last edited by guy038 Sep 17, 2021, 10:33 PM Sep 17, 2021, 10:31 PM

          Hi, @victor-fansler, @terry-r and All,

          Ah…OK ! But I think, Victor, that the best way would be to show us a list of, let’s say, 4 to 10 initial blocks, as well as the expected layout of these blocks, AFTER modifications !


          Anyway, I give it a new try ! So, starting with this text :

          Connection Lost to Camera
          Line 3 of Set 1
          Line 2 of Set 1
          Line 1 of Set 1
          Account: Christopher
          
          Video Return
          Line 1 of Set 2
          Account: Margaret
          
          Fatal Error
          Line 1 of Set 3
          Line 6 of Set 3
          Line 2 of Set 3
          Line 5 of Set 3
          Camera Name 0
          Line 7 of Set 3
          Line 3 of Set 3
          Account: Elton
          

          With the regex S/R below :

          • SEARCH (?-s)^(.+\R)((?:.+\R)+)

          • REPLACE \2\1

          We first get, as before, the following OUTPUT :

          Line 3 of Set 1
          Line 2 of Set 1
          Line 1 of Set 1
          Account: Christopher
          Connection Lost to Camera
          
          Line 1 of Set 2
          Account: Margaret
          Video Return
          
          Line 1 of Set 3
          Line 6 of Set 3
          Line 2 of Set 3
          Line 5 of Set 3
          Camera Name 0
          Line 7 of Set 3
          Line 3 of Set 3
          Account: Elton
          Fatal Error
          

          Then, with this second S/R, slightly modified :

          • SEARCH (?-s)^.+(?=\R(?:.+\R)*Account: (.+)\R(.+)\R)|^(.+\R){2}(?=^\R)

          • REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

          You should get your expected text :

          Christopher - Line 3 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          Christopher - Line 2 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          Christopher - Line 1 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          
          Margaret - Line 1 of Set 2 - Video Return
          
          Elton - Line 1 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 6 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 2 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 5 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Camera Name 0 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 7 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 3 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          

          And, after a classical alphabetical sort, we obtain :

          Christopher - Line 1 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          Christopher - Line 2 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          Christopher - Line 3 of Set 1 - Connection Lost to Camera
          Elton - Camera Name 0 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 1 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 2 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 3 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 5 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 6 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Elton - Line 7 of Set 3 - Fatal Error
          Margaret - Line 1 of Set 2 - Video Return
          

          I hope that this new layout meets your needs :-))

          BR

          guy038

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            DarthData @guy038
            last edited by Sep 17, 2021, 10:54 PM

            @guy038 said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

            ?1\1 - $0 - \2

            Thanks, that works. Needs a little cleanup afterwards, but I can deal with that. For some reason it did not remove the last two lines (Account and Connection lost), in the document.

            I wanted to send an actual example of the file, but can’t really share the real information.

            Have a Great Weekend!!

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              guy038
              last edited by guy038 Sep 17, 2021, 11:32 PM Sep 17, 2021, 11:25 PM

              Hello, @victor-fansler, @terry-r and All,

              Aaarrrgggh ! Always this damn problem of texts that do not end with a last line break !

              So, before running the regexes, just be sure that your current file ends with a final line-break ( View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters )

              I also, realized that my second regex did not take in account such a possibility !


              Indeed, in the last alternative of my second regex, the part ^(.+\R){2}(?=^\R) searches for 2 complete lines, with their line-breaks ( CRLF ) but ONLY IF it is followed with a pure blank line

              So, either :

              • Use my previous second search regex (?-s)^.+(?=\R(?:.+\R)*Account: (.+)\R(.+)\R)|^(.+\R){2}(?=^\R) and your current file must end this way :
              SECOND to last lineCRLF
              LAST NON-empty lineCRLF
              CRLF
              
              • Or use this new search version (?-s)^.+(?=\R(?:.+\R)*Account: (.+)\R(.+)\R)|^(.+\R){2}(?=^\R|\z) and your current file could simply end as below :
              SECOND to last lineCRLF
              LAST NON-empty ineCRLF
              

              BR

              guy038

              Alan KilbornA 1 Reply Last reply Sep 18, 2021, 1:55 AM Reply Quote 2
              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @guy038
                last edited by Sep 18, 2021, 1:55 AM

                @guy038 said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                Always this damn problem of texts that do not end with a last line break !

                I gave up dealing with that problem long ago when I started to use the editorconfig plugin. With it you can specify that files should always end with an line-ending sequence.

                Too bad that isn’t a native feature of Notepad++.

                Michael VincentM 1 Reply Last reply Feb 15, 2022, 2:25 PM Reply Quote 2
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                  guy038
                  last edited by guy038 Feb 15, 2022, 6:08 PM Feb 15, 2022, 1:52 PM

                  Hello @victor-fansler, @terry-r, @alan-kilborn and All,

                  You said, in your chat message :

                  The “Camera” is a placeholder and can be any text, but will end with a Date and Time

                  So I suppose that all these lines always end with the three uppercase letters PST

                  If this assumption is right, here are new versions of the regexes ( The first and second one ). Note also that I improved these regexes :

                  Now, you don’t even need to separate any section with blank line(s) ;-))


                  So starting with your INPUT text, where I added some empty lines :

                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  
                  
                  
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  
                  
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  

                  First, use the following regex S/R in order to place the line Video Return OR Connection Lost to Camera, after each line Account :

                  SEARCH (?-s)^(.+\R)((?:.+\R)+?Account: .+\R)\R*

                  REPLACE \2\1

                  We get this text :

                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Video Return
                  Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name
                  Connection Lost to Camera
                  

                  Now, using this second regex S/R :

                  SEARCH (?-is)^.+PST(?=\R(?:.+PST\R)*?(Account: .+)\R(.+)\R)|^(.+\R){2}

                  REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

                  We get the OUTPUT text :

                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
                  

                  I hope that it is your expected text !?

                  See you later !

                  Best Regards,

                  guy038

                  Alan KilbornA D 2 Replies Last reply Feb 15, 2022, 2:02 PM Reply Quote 1
                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @guy038
                    last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 2:02 PM

                    @guy038

                    Is there a special reason for the recent revisit to something asked 5 months ago? Just asking…in case I am missing some sort of newly discovered technique…

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                      guy038
                      last edited by guy038 Feb 15, 2022, 2:14 PM Feb 15, 2022, 2:12 PM

                      Hi, @alan-kilborn,

                      Well, it’s just that we cannot place more than 1,000 characters in a chat message. So I preferred to answer in our forum !

                      But, indeed, I was asked to create a new post or to continue with that one !

                      I have just re-indicated to @victor-fansler, the title of this article

                      BR

                      guy038

                      Alan KilbornA 1 Reply Last reply Feb 15, 2022, 2:18 PM Reply Quote 2
                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @guy038
                        last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 2:18 PM

                        @guy038 said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                        But, indeed, I was asked to create a new post or to continue with that one !

                        Ah, OK, makes sense! I wasn’t sure your previous use of “chat” really meant that or just conversation above in this thread.

                        Chat is useful if something really gets specific to an OP’s need and really can’t benefit anyone else. Otherwise it is good to see the conversation in a real post.

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                        • Michael VincentM
                          Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 2:25 PM

                          @alan-kilborn said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                          I gave up dealing with that problem long ago when I started to use the editorconfig plugin. With it you can specify that files should always end with an line-ending sequence.

                          I would have thought you’d have a PythonScript for that! :-)

                          Cheers.

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                            last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 2:30 PM

                            @michael-vincent said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                            I would have thought you’d have a PythonScript for that

                            It would be an easy script, but I don’t tend to re-invent the wheel unless I’m going to make the wheel better. And editorconfig works just fine in this regard, so…just keep rollin’.

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                              last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 2:42 PM

                              @michael-vincent said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                              …PythonScript for that…

                              Well… I looked into my folder of “retired” scripts and I found that I used to use the SCOTT SCRIPT for doing it before I discovered the editorconfig plugin.

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                                DarthData @guy038
                                last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 6:50 PM

                                @guy038 Thanks for this and sorry for any confusion. Unfortunately, the lines will not always end with PST. There are different time zones. Primarily PST and MST, but could be MDT as well.

                                Lycan ThropeL 1 Reply Last reply Feb 15, 2022, 8:52 PM Reply Quote 0
                                • Lycan ThropeL
                                  Lycan Thrope @DarthData
                                  last edited by Feb 15, 2022, 8:52 PM

                                  @darthdata ,

                                  You really have to stop moving the goal posts. :) Poor @guy038 must have a real life, even if he does love doing this stuff, I suspect he’d like to fix it once and move on. :)

                                  Lee

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                                    guy038
                                    last edited by Feb 20, 2022, 1:50 AM

                                    Hi, @darthdata and All,

                                    In this case, change the second regex S/R into this one :

                                    SEARCH (?-is)^.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)(?=\R(?:.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)\R)*?(Account: .+)\R(.+))|^(.+\R){2}

                                    REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

                                    BR

                                    guy038

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