Change and move a string

Knowledge Base

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

Ekopalypse

@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.

Ekopalypse

@Knowledge-Base

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

Knowledge Base

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.

guy038

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