How To Replace or Delete Text Between Numbered Lines

Tyler Naddy

I’m working on my website and I want to delete or replace text between the numbered lines in notepad++ with the replace function, is there any way an expression can be written to accomplish this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ekopalypse

@Tyler-Naddy

note sure I understand correctly.
Let’s say, you have some arbitrary text on lines 6 to 10
and you want to have something where you can specify 6 to 10 in find what box
and in replace with box you enter your replacement, correct?

Tyler Naddy

Correct.

Tyler Naddy

Is there any way to write that into an expression?

rinku singh

for Delete Text Between Numbered Lines
it is based on specified text
find what : (\w-?)\w+
replace with : Empty

for Delete Text Between word Lines
it is based on specified text
find what : (\d-?)\d+
replace with : Empty

Alan Kilborn

@Tyler-Naddy

So, sadly, the site migration lost a reply I made to this earlier. Luckily I still had the text of most of it in an N++ tab! :)

Here’s the earlier reply again:

We can accomplish this by borrowing from the info found here.

As an example, say you want to skip 3 lines at the top of file, then replace then next 5 lines with something else. Note: Another way to say it is to replace line numbers 4 through 8.

Use this regular expression search expression to match the lines: (?-s)(?<!\x0A)^(?:.*\R){3}\K(?:.*\R){5} and do a Replace-All with whatever you’d like (replace with nothing to delete those lines).

Note that you have to do a Replace-All and not a simple Replace due to the \K syntax used. For the details of why this works, see the earlier referenced link.