How to add asterisk to a list of filenames and make it a line

Sunil Kumar

Hello.

I’ve a list of file names (about 4000).

For example:
A-67569
H-67985
J-87657
K-85897
.
.
.

I need to put asterisk before and after each file name. And make it a line format.

Example:

A-67569 H-67985 J-87657 K-85897 …

Note that there is a space between filenames.

How can I do it?

Please advise.

Thanks

Sunil Kumar

After I posted, I noticed it’s not allowing to show the asterisks I put before and after the filenames. So please look at the pic in the link.

Thanks

guy038

Hello @sunil-kumar and All,

Not difficult with regular expressions ! So :

SEARCH (?-s)(.+)\R

REPLACE *\1*\x20

Select the Regular expression search mode
Move your cursor to the beginning of your list of files
Click several times on the Replace button or once, only, on the Replace All button

Voilà !

Notes :

As usual, the (?-s) modifier means that the regex dot character ( . ) represents a single standard character
Then, the part (.+) stands for any non-empty range of consecutive standard characters, which is stored as group1, as embedded in parentheses
The last part, \R matches any kind of line-break ( \r\n, \n or \r )
In replacement, we rewrite an asterisk, followed by the filename ( group1 ), followed, again, with an asterisk and, finally, with a space character ( \x20 )

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

A small drawback is that the last file, of the unique line, is, of course, followed with a space char, too !