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guy038

abuali huma,

Seemingly, you consider in the original first line, two parts :

The first part , which, after replacement, will be moved to the end of this first line
The second part, which, after replacement, will follow the contents of the deleted second line

I, just, supposed that the limit, between these two parts, was the one between ideographic and NON-ideographic characters

However, any kind of limit may be considered. For instance, if you prefer, we may suppose that group 1 is all the characters of the first line, till a first semicolon or… anything else ! Just tell me which criterion to choose :-))

Cheers,

guy038

abuali huma

@guy038 said:

abuali huma,

Seemingly, you consider in the original first line, two parts :

The first part , which, after replacement, will be moved to the end of this first line

The second part, which, after replacement, will follow the contents of the deleted second line

I, just, supposed that the limit, between these two parts, was the one between ideographic and NON-ideographic characters

However, any kind of limit may be considered. For instance, if you prefer, we may suppose that group 1 is all the characters of the first line, till a first semicolon or… anything else ! Just tell me which criterion to choose :-))

Cheers,

guy038

Well let’s see,
group one should be all characters until the first semicolon
group two from the semicolon till line ends
group three should be all characters in the line

and there’s some lines “minoraty” that contains 5 or 7 groups, but I think I could just duplicate the process.

guy038

Hi, abuali huma,

OK.! So, the general S/R becomes :

SEARCH (?-si)^(.+?)(;.*)\R(.+)

REPLACE \3\2\1

NOTES :

The group 2, ( (;.*) ), begins, as expected, with a semicolon, followed by any range, even empty, of standard character(s) ( Remember that the quantifier * is the short form for {0,} ! )
The group 1, ( (.+?) ), after the location beginning of line, looks for the shortest, NON-empty, range of standard character, till a semicolon.
Note that the form .+?, equivalent to .{1,}? is a lazy quantifier, which forces the regex engine to find the MINIMUM of standard characters till a semicolon => So, in your previous first example, group 1 is equal to the string こんにちは
On the contrary, if we have used the greedy quantifier, .+, equivalent to .{1,}, it would have forced the regex engine to find the MAXIMUM of standard characters, till a semicolon. So, in your previous first example, group 1 would have been equal to the string こんにちは;Ax#&, before the second semicolon !
The group 3, ( (.+) ), after the EOL character(s) of the first line, represents any NON-empty range of standard characters, of the second line
Remember that, as each group contains standard characters, they may, also, begins and/or ends with some space or tabulation character(s), except for group 2, which must begin with a semicolon

BTW, to know the meaning of the different quantifiers, just see my post to Casey, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12905/how-to-remove-duplicate-row-in-find-result/4NON-empty

Best Regards,

guy038

hu ma

@guy038 said:

Hi, abuali huma,

OK.! So, the general S/R becomes :

SEARCH (?-si)^(.+?)(;.*)\R(.+)

REPLACE \3\2\1

NOTES :

The group 2, ( (;.*) ), begins, as expected, with a semicolon, followed by any range, even empty, of standard character(s) ( Remember that the quantifier * is the short form for {0,} ! )

The group 1, ( (.+?) ), after the location beginning of line, looks for the shortest, NON-empty, range of standard character, till a semicolon.

Note that the form .+?, equivalent to .{1,}? is a lazy quantifier, which forces the regex engine to find the MINIMUM of standard characters till a semicolon => So, in your previous first example, group 1 is equal to the string こんにちは

On the contrary, if we have used the greedy quantifier, .+, equivalent to .{1,}, it would have forced the regex engine to find the MAXIMUM of standard characters, till a semicolon. So, in your previous first example, group 1 would have been equal to the string こんにちは;Ax#&, before the second semicolon !

The group 3, ( (.+) ), after the EOL character(s) of the first line, represents any NON-empty range of standard characters, of the second line

Remember that, as each group contains standard characters, they may, also, begins and/or ends with some space or tabulation character(s), except for group 2, which must begin with a semicolon

BTW, to know the meaning of the different quantifiers, just see my post to Casey, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12905/how-to-remove-duplicate-row-in-find-result/4NON-empty

Best Regards,

guy038

Thanks, that is perfect one, it saved me alot of time

abuali huma

Back again,
this time I want to swap two sentences or three separated by a symbol.

example1
Original

 this is text number two|This is text number one

Result

 This is text number one|this is text number two

Example2

 this is text number three|this is text number two|This is text number one

Result

 This is text number one|this is text number two|this is text number three

guy038

Hi, abuali huma,

Not very difficult to achieve !

EXAMPLE 1 :

SEARCH ^(.+)\|(.+)

REPLACE \2|\1

Notes :

This first regex separates the two parts of text, before and after the symbol | , which must be escaped ( \| ) as this symbol, in search regexes, stands for the normal alternation symbol !
The part, before the symbol, is stored as group 1 and the part, located after, is stored as group 2
In replacement, we just reverse the order of these two groups

EXAMPLE 2

SEARCH ^(.+?)\|(.+)\|(.+)

REPLACE \3|\2|\1

Notes :

This second regex separates the three parts of text, created by the symbol |, which are stored as group 1, group 2 and group 3
The first part ^(.+?)\|, tries to match, from beginning of line ( ^) , the shortest non-null range of characters, till the FIRST separation symbol ( \| ), because of the lazy quantifier ( +?)
Note that if we would have written this first part ^(.+)\|, it would have matched the string this is text number three|this is text number two. Indeed, due to the greedy quantifier ( + ), it would have matched the tallest non-null range of characters, till the SECOND separation symbol !
Then for the two remaining parts, of the regex, (.+)\|(.+) just refer to the previous regex for explanations
In replacement, we just perform a permutation of these three groups

Cheers,

guy038