Can I consider “whole word” as the word with space separated only in notepad++?

lanselibai

Currently, if I have the following text

5 0.5 4

Then I do a “whole word only” replacement for 5 to 9, I will get

9 0.9 4

instead of

9 0.5 4

So how can I get 9 0.5 4? Is this doable within Notepad++?

Chip Cooper

This looks like a normal search and replace mode action. I’ve done this, but it’s been a while; You might have to use a special char for <sp>; but, probably not, as long as the search string and replacement string contains the space and the whole string as you wrote, it should work… Since you didn’t try; I’d say just try it, and make sure you have a backup of the file in case it goes wrong. I think there’s a special extended case for a <sp> but not sure what it is. If normal doesn’t work, that’ll work; but, you’ll have to use the Search mode: extended to do it at worst case. I"m working on learning RegEx (Regular Expression) search mode; it’s tough but doable. At least give ‘Normal’ search a try…

lanselibai

I got the answer here
https://superuser.com/questions/1284912/can-i-consider-whole-word-as-the-word-with-space-isolated-in-notepad/1284943#1284943

Chip Cooper

Yeah, using regex, I’m still picking up on that… still I don’t know why a simple search and replace wouldn’t work on that. Guess I’d have to give it a try to find out. ;-) So, perhaps I misunderstood the question. Nope, it works.

Search 5 0.5 4 replace: 9 0.5 4 using normal

guy038

Hi @lanselibai,

Sure that regexes can sort out all the cases where a 5 digit must be replaced by a 9 digit !!

So, given the 10 numbers, below, containing one or several 5 digits :

52.8
3.457
505
10.5
5
0.345
23558
56789.5512557
5555.5555
0.000000005

Which are the final expected form of each number ? Of course, I suppose that, in real files, these 10 numbers may lie in a single or on several lines

From the results, It should be easy enough to build up the appropriate regex !

Best Regards

guy038