Replacing every line that ends in X with Y

Aulumen Eulogy

I need to replace every line that ends in a certain string of characters (.png in this case) with a different line - I’ve tried to figure out how it can be done with regex however I can’t seem to get my head around how regex works. I can also post a snippet of the file (although it’s nearing 400,000 lines which is why I can’t do it manually). Any help with this is greatly appreciated

guy038

Hello, @aulumen-eulogy,

Numerous things can be achieved with regular expressions, indeed ! Of course, we need some additional information to build an accurate search/replacement which could meet your needs ;-))

Just a guess : I suppose that your file contains lines which end with a picture file name, having .png format and that you want to change these names with, …let’s say, the .jpg extension ! If so :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl+ H )
SEARCH \.png$
REPLACE .jpg
Click, preferably, the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click on the Replace All button

Notes :

The dot character must be escaped with the backslash char \ , as it’s a meta-character, with special signification, in regexes
At the end, the $ symbol is an assertion, which means that the literal string .png must be located at the end of each line, in order to get a match

Best Regards,

guy038

Aulumen Eulogy

@guy038

Thank you for the in-depth answer, although it’s not precisely what I’m looking for - Say I have 4 lines:
imageone.png
imagetwo.jpg
unrelatedline
imagethree.png
Instead of replacing the file extension with something else, I need to replace any lines ending in .png with a different line (such as imagereplaced.png), changing the previous lines like so:
imagereplaced.png
imagetwo.jpg
unrelatedline
imagereplaced.png

I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear with this in my original post

guy038

Hi, @aulumen-eulogy and All,

Sorry, but there’s still a problem ! In your list of replaced lines, below :

imagereplaced.png
imagetwo.jpg
unrelatedline
imagereplaced.png

There are two identical lines imagereplaced.png ?!

Thus, two possibilities :

A) The part “replaced” is really a literal string and you do not mind having duplicates names of file. In that case, the following regex S/R should work :

SEARCH (?i)\bimage.+\.png$
REPLACE imagereplaced.png

Notes :

The (?i) part is an in-line modifier meaning that the search is insensitive to the case of letters
The \b part is as assertion, saying that the string image must be preceded with a non-word character ( EOL, blank or symbol character )
The .+ represents the longest area of characters, between the two strings image and .png, which must end each line, due to the final $ meta-character

B) The part, naned “replaced”, is different for each file. In that case, again… some explanations would be welcome :-))

Cheers,

guy038

Aulumen Eulogy

@guy038
Many thanks for the help, A worked wonderfully (I replaced image with [a-z] so it’d work with all of the different files I needed to replace, but aside from that it was flawless).