<![CDATA[Adding " at the beginning and end of every line]]>I was given the following info and it worked until yesterday but does not work today. This is VERY strange. Instead of adding just a double quote at the beginning or end, it replaces the first or last character with the & symbol.

For example, you can add a quote at the end of every line:
Edit > Find & Replace
Search for: .$
Replace with: &"

Options/Regular expressions: ON

Click Replace All

And, similarly, at the beginning:
Search for: ^.
Replace with: "&

I have restarted the program and reloaded the document with no success. What is wrong now? I have tried it over and over again and get the same result.

Thanks.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/11202/adding-at-the-beginning-and-end-of-every-lineRSS for NodeMon, 10 Aug 2026 13:39:09 GMTFri, 29 Jan 2016 06:19:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Adding " at the beginning and end of every line on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:27:54 GMT]]>Hello @W-C

when having

Search for: $
Replace with: "

and

Search for: ^
Replace with: "

then it should have worked but not with the dot char added and with the restriction gerdb42 mentioned.

You can also use a single regex, something like

Search for: ^(.+)$
Replace with: "\1"

Search for explained:
^ = from the beginning of the line
(.+) = looking for atleast one but as much as possible chars and return the match until
$ = end of line is reached

Replace with explained:
" = insert a double quote followed by the
\1 = matched result and
" = add an additional double quote

Cheers
Claudia

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/13662https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/13662Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:27:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Adding " at the beginning and end of every line on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:54:20 GMT]]>I think you need to write $&" and "$& for replacement. You may want to use [^"] instead of . to skip lines already beginning/ending with ". Use [^"\r\n] to also skip empty lines.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/13661https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/13661Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:54:20 GMT