Copy each line of text to 2nd line and add text before and after

Jake Stahl

Here’s what I need to do. I have a text file with a list of filenames.

example:

3wonders.zip
40love.zip
4dwarrio.zip

I need to copy each line to a second line and then add text before and after each line.

example:

mame[“3wonders.zip”].core=mame0139
mame[“3wonders.zip”].emulator=libretro
mame[“40love.zip”].core=mame0139
mame[“40love.zip”].emulator=libretro
mame[“4dwarrio.zip”].core=mame0139
mame[“4dwarrio.zip”].emulator=libretro

I’ve found the commands to add the text before and after a single line but I’m lost on if there’s a better way to do this than having to add and edit line by line for the for line of the text file name that was copied from the original line.

Alan Kilborn

@Jake-Stahl

Find: (?-s)^(.+)$
Replace: mame["$0"].core=mame0139\r\nmame["$0"].emulator=libretro
Search mode: Regular expression

Learn more about how to do this kind of thing yourself, HERE.

Jake Stahl

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you so much! I was searching for that kind of information but I’m pretty new to using Notepad++ and had no idea of what terms, etc. I was looking for. Thank you for the very useful information.