how is npp's regex different from https://regex101.com/ regex?

Alan Kilborn

If you want to use the regex within a PythonScript plugin then RegexTester matches 100%

This is because RegexTester is written in Pythonscript itself, and calls the regex engine of Pythonscript, which is NOT the Python regex engine.

I have done some research and it is my understanding from reading some earlier postings here as well as the product description, that Regex Buddy is the best regex tester, but it is not free. It can directly use the Boost regex engine that is a close to what is in Notepad++ as one can get. Regarding not free: It depends how much time you waste having regex problems currently. It does not take much time of that sort before such a program pays for itself. And so we’re clear, I have no affiliation with Regex buddy.

Meta Chuh

off topic, but important: @Alan-Kilborn

could you please have a look at this topic link below ?

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17072/new-enhancement-for-user-defined-language-system/15

this is very strange, as the nodebb db got scrambled somehow.
it was the topic where we were talking about udl manuals, and one of your posts disappeared.

further more, the id’s got mixed up and out of alignment, so that instead of your post, we see rddim.

and most weird thing: my answer to your post has your name now, which is completely out of context.

afaik i suppose that it wasn’t done by the mods, as there was no reason what so ever to delete any of the posts, especially not yours.

did you by any chance accidentally or willingly delete it yourself ?
if yes, there could be some sort of bbs db bug.

note: please don’t delete this “hybrid post mixup”, because it is not yet known, if someone might need it for any investigations.
i’ve already notified don & co. about that.

Alan Kilborn

@Meta-Chuh

Strange indeed. I deleted nothing, accidentally or willingly. I do now see that a posting that is clearly authored by you is attributed to me. Maybe I look smart now. :)

V S Rawat

@Eko-palypse

I use regex in npp as a normal text cleaning. removing unwanted text, breaking lines at certain places “, ; . etc.”, joining them back after certain processing.

I don’t use regex in pythonscript, because I don’t know much of pythonscript.

several things I do is repetitive, I have to do the same set, with slight changes for numbers, etc., to break the text again and again, and join back again and again after processing, that’s why I had thought to make pythonscripts for repeated use, and I had installed the plugin.

But I tried for somedays and couldn’t make much headway so I gave up. Now only one pythonscript is there for repeated things.

some day I will gather courage again to learn pythonscript, till then it is find-replace regex on text.