3. Search and replace not working properly ...

Search and replace not working properly ...


  • I have for months been successfully transferring text from PDF documents to N++ and stripping the CR&LF that appears after each word by searching for \r\n and replacing with \s with the extended option ticked.
    Yesterday this stopped working. I deleted my install and downloaded the latest version to find the same problem which is that the CR&LF are replaced by a literal \s inserted before each word.
    Any idea of what is happening here?

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  • Debug info is here if it is useful:
    Notepad++ v7.3.1 (32-bit)
    Build time : Jan 17 2017 - 00:21:10
    Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
    Admin mode : ON
    Local Conf mode : OFF
    OS : Windows 7
    Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppFTP.dll PluginManager.dll

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  • @Hakim-Oerton

    I don’t know about the “Extended” Search Mode as I have no experience with it. I see little use for it since Regular Expression mode was added in version 6.0 – my guess is that extended mode is still retained for people that are accustomed to using it.

    Why don’t you try doing your Search-and-Replace this way?:

    Find what: \r\n
    Replace with: \x20
    Mode: Regular expression

    You could enter simply a single space into the “Replace with” box, but as that would be hard to show in red above, I opted for the hex version of a single space (the \x20). Either way will work.

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  • Normal text search not working for me too… Find next button doesn’t show anything, while “Find all in current document” shows the occurrences correctly.

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  • Occasionally I leave the “In selection” tick box on the replace window ticked, then I get very confused about why a replace does not do what I want. Unticking the “In selection” box and shouting at my mouse for clicking the wrong things lets the replacement work OK.

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  • @Scott-Sumner said:

    \x20

    by the way, please tell me. x20 is the same thing as one space between words?

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  • @Vasile-Caraus

    @Scott-Sumner said:

    You could enter simply a single space into the “Replace with” box, but as that would be hard to show in red above, I opted for the hex version of a single space (the \x20). Either way will work.

    Was that unclear? or just not read?

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  • @Scott-Sumner said:

    a single space into the “Re

    hello. I read, only that I made a regex and \x20 was not working as a space.

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  • @Vasile-Caraus

    Create a UTF-8 document with some “word” data in it. For example, copy-n-paste the content of this posting.

    Get to the Find dialog’s Replace tab:

    • Find what: \w
    • Replace with: \x20
    • Search mode: Regular expression
    • Wrap around: checked
    • Uncheck all other checkboxes on Replace tab.

    Press the Replace button one or more times. Each press replaces a word character with a single space character.

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