<![CDATA[Change and move a string]]>Hello,

I tried a lot, but nothing worked.
How to move a text in a line?
The lines look about this:

[combobox “Text 1”][button “Expand List”]‘/>
[combobox “Text 2”][button “Expand List”]’/>
[combobox “Text 3”][button “Expand List”]'/>

and I want to change it like this:
[group “Text 1”].combobox[button “Expand List”]‘/>
[group “Text 2”].combobox[button “Expand List”]’/>
[group “Text 3”].combobox[button “Expand List”]'/>

Can anybody help me

Thanks a lot

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18220/change-and-move-a-stringRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 10:30:18 GMTMon, 09 Sep 2019 11:03:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Change and move a string on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:31:31 GMT]]>Hello, @knowledge-base, @ekopalypse,

I was away from the N++ community since more than a month ( see my post below )

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47895

So, just for info ! The @ekopalypse solution can even be shortened :

FIND combobox( ".+?"\])

REPLACE group\1.combobox

Best Regards,

guy038

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47910https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47910Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:31:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Change and move a string on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:11:34 GMT]]>Hello Ekopalypse ,

okay, I’ve tried a completely wrong path.
1447 replaces in less than 1 second - I’m happy :-)

Thanks al lot for you help.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46938https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46938Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:11:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Change and move a string on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:47:12 GMT]]>@Knowledge-Base

sorry, find what is to broad, use : (\[(combobox) (".+?")\])

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46937https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46937Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:47:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Change and move a string on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:30:09 GMT]]>@Knowledge-Base
find what:(\[(combobox) (".+")\])
replace with:\[group \3\]\.\2

because [ and ] and . do have special meanings in regex, they need to be escaped
in order to treat them literally.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46935https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46935Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:30:09 GMT