How to add numbers to a text with notepad?

oscar remiccc

Hello everyone, friends I am trying to add numbers to the names of a text for example

jhonn
james
karl
perry
.
.
.
.
katy

to

1:jhonn
2:james
3:karl
4:perry
.
.
.
n:katy

Any friends idea?

Terry R

It looks like you want to put an increasing number sequence to the start of the line.

If so, then use the Edit, Column Editor function. So put the cursor in the left most position on the first line that requires the number. If you want all lines to have the number, then this would be left most position on the first line. Then select Edit, Column Editor and Text to Insert, type : in the field and click OK
Then select left most column again (so before the :), Edit, Column Editor and Number to Insert, type 1 in the initial number and increase by 1, then click OK, make sure Dec is selected. You could also have the leading zeros ticked if you like the numbers to look all the same (same number of characters regardless of whether it’s the 1 or 100, so 001 or 100).

This should achieve what you desire. If you don’t want ALL lines, then you can move the cursor to the first line that needs the number, click once, then hold the Alt key down and move the mouse down to the last line you want numbers in, release and repeat the steps above.

Terry

oscar remiccc

thanks you

oscar remiccc

Terry, one more query, how can I delete the numbers at the end of a text?
please

study20978
fly20979
run20980
swim20981
learning20982
todo20983
no20984

to

study
fly
run
swim
learning
todo
no

guy038

Hello, @oscar-remiccc, @Terry-r, and All

@oscar-remiccc,

Very easily, with a regular expression S/R ! So,

Open the Replace dialog
Select the Regular expression search mode
Tick, if necessary, the Wrap around option

SEARCH \d+$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Click once, on the Replace All button or repeatedly, on the Replace button

@Terry-r

I didn’t know that trick to restrict the range of the column-editor numbering to some lines, with the column mode. Nice :-)) I also tried :

A left mouse click, followed by some Ctrl + left mouse click to get zero-length multi-line selections
Instead of typing text, open the Column editor and insert numbers.Funny isn’t it ?

Best Regards,

guy038

Scott Sumner

@guy038 said:

Instead of typing text, open the Column editor and insert numbers.Funny isn’t it ?

I don’t know that it is “funny”–it worked as I would expect when I tried it.

guy038

Hi, @scott-sumner and All,

Scott, it’s just because I was expecting an other output !

For instance, Let’s suppose the sample 5-lines text, below :

abc def ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi

Now left click,once, before the letter a of the FIRST line abc def ghi
Then, while holding down the Ctrl key, left click right before the letter d, of the FIRST line
Again, while holding down the Ctrl key, left click right before the letter g, of the FIRST line

=> So we have 3 cursors, in front of each string abc, def and hij, in the FIRST line

Now, open the column Editor ( Alt + C )
Select the case Number to insert
Type in 1 in the Initial number and Increase by fields
Click on the OK button

=> You get the following results :

1abc 2def 3ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi
abc def ghi

When I first did this test,…, Hum, I was expecting this text :

1abc 1def 1ghi
2abc 2def 2ghi
3abc 3def 3ghi
4abc 4def 4ghi
5abc 5def 5ghi

This is the reason why I’ve thought the normal behaviour weird enough ;-))

Cheers

guy038

Scott Sumner

@guy038

So we have 3 cursors, in front of each string

We should note that to get multiple carets (aka cursors) you need Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Editing (box on left) -> Multi-Editing Settings -> Enable … ticked…which by default it is not.