<![CDATA[Hello, I am trying to replace a whole paragraph in many files. But the replace function always truncate the paragraph after the first line.... I tried all different options available... Is there anything I missed?]]>trying to replace this: case 'eng': $dg_language = 'en'; break; case 'fra': $dg_language = 'fr'; break; case 'deu': $dg_language = 'de'; break; case 'pol': $dg_language = 'pl'; break; default: $dg_language = 'en'; break;

with this:
case ‘eng’: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;
case ‘fra’: $dg_language = ‘fr’; break;
case ‘deu’: $dg_language = ‘de’; break;
case ‘pol’: $dg_language = ‘pl’; break;
case ‘por’: $dg_language = ‘pt’; break;
case ‘spa’: $dg_language = ‘es’; break;
default: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18324/hello-i-am-trying-to-replace-a-whole-paragraph-in-many-files-but-the-replace-function-always-truncate-the-paragraph-after-the-first-line-i-tried-all-different-options-available-is-there-anything-i-missedRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 16:42:29 GMTFri, 04 Oct 2019 08:11:22 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hello, I am trying to replace a whole paragraph in many files. But the replace function always truncate the paragraph after the first line.... I tried all different options available... Is there anything I missed? on Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:49:31 GMT]]>Oops, embedded special characters (e.g $) would need to be “escaped” in the search expression; example \$. Note: NOT needed or desired in the “replace” part.

Sorry for the omission.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47552https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47552Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:49:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hello, I am trying to replace a whole paragraph in many files. But the replace function always truncate the paragraph after the first line.... I tried all different options available... Is there anything I missed? on Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:08:09 GMT]]>@Cedric-REYMOND

You could do it with a “regular expression” search-mode replacement:

Search on:

case 'eng': $dg_language = 'en'; break;\Rcase 'fra': $dg_language = 'fr'; break;\Rcase 'deu': $dg_language = 'de'; break;\Rcase 'pol': $dg_language = 'pl'; break;\Rdefault: $dg_language = 'en'; break;\R

Replace with:

case ‘eng’: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;\r\ncase ‘fra’: $dg_language = ‘fr’; break;\r\ncase ‘deu’: $dg_language = ‘de’; break;\r\ncase ‘pol’: $dg_language = ‘pl’; break;\r\ncase ‘por’: $dg_language = ‘pt’; break;\r\ncase ‘spa’: $dg_language = ‘es’; break;\r\ndefault: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;\r\n

…or something similar since your “whitespace” is hard to determine from your posting.

If your files are Linux and not Windows, change \r\n to \n in the replace part.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47546https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47546Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:08:09 GMT