Right Justifying Paragraphs

hoji afzal

@guy038

Thanks a lot; I just tried your steps and they work pretty well.

If anyone else wants to try it, be sure to use the **numeric **keypad to enter 031.

I will try (?-i)(?<!\bconst)\x20+ later on. And after that will brush up on my regular expressions :)

Appreciate your time!

Hoji

guy038

Hi, @hoji-afzal and All,

In my previous post, I used the control character \x1F as a temporary character, while executing the TextFX Line up option.

Of course, this is not a mandatory step ! You may, as well, use any symbol, which is NOT part of your block selection, yet ;-)). So, for instance, with your initial block of text :

public byte PUSH = 1;
private const int STOP = 0;
public const double SECS_TO_START = 10;
public int SEPARATOR = 21;

Any symbol, other than a semicolon and the equal sign, could be appropriate ;-))

With a hash symbol, for example, the main actions, with your sample text, would be :

Copy a single #, in the clipboard
Perform a first S/R, below, with Regular expression and In selection options ticked
- SEARCH (?-i)(?<!\bconst)\x20+
- REPLACE #
Click on TextFX > TextFX Edit > Line up multiple lines by (Clipboard Character)
Perform a second S/R, below, with Regular expression and In selection options ticked
- SEARCH #
- REPLACE \x20 ( you may, also, use a simple space char, instead ! )

Of course, if this temporary char is a control character, other than \r or \n, you’re quasi-certain that it is not used anywhere else, in current text or source code file !

Cheers,

guy038

hoji afzal

@guy038

Got it!
Notepad++ keeps a history of your searches, which is handy for this kind of operation.
Thanks a lot.
Hoji

hoji afzal

Hi all,

Just an update: I have been using TextFX in the last 5 months and it does the job pretty well. Was too lazy to try the other methods members graciously provided.

Thanks!