we could generalize the process

I REALLY like that regex, however I wonder if it would be worth it as in the OP’s situation it would be a toss up as to whether my regex or your’s is the easier to set up.

The power (and beauty) of your regex lies with the shortness of code, and I should say it’s generalization. Even if there were say 50 numbers to be used (50-99), your regex still looks good, mine on the other hand becomes unwieldy.

Thanks for the enlightenment
Terry

I think that we could generalize the process in order to match other texts or number of lines !

I’ve thought about this general template :

\h*   Val_1   SP+   Val_2  SP+  Val_3   SP+  Val_4  SP+ ............. SP+  Val_N   TAB+   REPEATED text

where :

• The first value Val_1 can be preceded with possible horizontal blank characters

• The different values Val_1, Val_2, Val_3, etc…, are separated with, at least, 1 space character

• After the last value Val_N , there is, at least, 1 tabulation character, as a separator

• Finally each line ends with some text, which will be repeated N times, at beginning of the replaced lines

Now, let’s assume this initial text :

		  10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20		1111111111:
100 110 120 130 140 150							ABCDE = -
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20				2222222222:
		  Test									A small 
    A    B CDE     F GH I						Upper Letters:
05 05 05 05 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 03 02 02 01	Hesitant Countdown --> 

With this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^\h*(\w+)(?=.*\t+(.+))|^\t.+\R?

REPLACE ?1\2\1\r\n

You would obtain :

1111111111:10
1111111111:11
1111111111:12
1111111111:13
1111111111:14
1111111111:15
1111111111:16
1111111111:17
1111111111:18
1111111111:19
1111111111:20
ABCDE = -100
ABCDE = -110
ABCDE = -120
ABCDE = -130
ABCDE = -140
ABCDE = -150
2222222222:10
2222222222:11
2222222222:12
2222222222:13
2222222222:14
2222222222:15
2222222222:16
2222222222:17
2222222222:18
2222222222:19
2222222222:20
A small Test
Upper Letters:A
Upper Letters:B
Upper Letters:CDE
Upper Letters:F
Upper Letters:GH
Upper Letters:I
Hesitant Countdown --> 05
Hesitant Countdown --> 05
Hesitant Countdown --> 05
Hesitant Countdown --> 05
Hesitant Countdown --> 05
Hesitant Countdown --> 04
Hesitant Countdown --> 04
Hesitant Countdown --> 04
Hesitant Countdown --> 04
Hesitant Countdown --> 03
Hesitant Countdown --> 03
Hesitant Countdown --> 03
Hesitant Countdown --> 02
Hesitant Countdown --> 02
Hesitant Countdown --> 01

Nice, isn’t it !

Best Regards,

guy038

As this is a regex (regular expression) the search mode MUST be ‘regular expression’ and have wrap around ticked.

Last step is to remove that last line at the bottom of the file.

Please let me know how you get on.

Terry

i want to put incrementing numbers from 10 to 20

From your example it would appear that for each line you originally have you want to copy that 10 extra times (?, 10-20 inclusive) and each line will have that incremented number after a :. Is that correct?

Or does the file already have ALL lines, and you just want the incremented number behind each?

Terry