RegEX in Notepad++ removing different text with \ in it

Magnum Opus

If I have a list of text in Notepad++ and I want to replace like this

C:\thingie\things\test3\merchant\test\test_
C:\thingie\notthings\test3\merchant\test\test_
C:\thingie\thesethings\test5\merchantweird\test\test_
C:\thingie\thosethings\test5\merchant\test\test_
C:\thingie\anythings\test3\police\test\test_
C:\thingie\notsothings\tesrret3\merchant2\test\test_
C:\thingie\things\test_

Which needs to be replaced into

Newtext=otherplace(test=test_

with the only thing retained is the test_ from the previous list.

I have it somewhat working, but I can’t get it to do * and \ together.

So what would be the correct RegEX in Notepad++ to replace this way?

PeterJones

@Magnum-Opus ,

I have it somewhat working, but I can’t get it to do * and \ together.

So show us what regex you’ve tried, and show us the results, explaining why it doesn’t match what you wanted. Otherwise, you’re asking us to start from scratch, rather than knowing what you tried and using that as a starting point.

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Magnum Opus

C:\Ark\Servers\EOGamer2.0-PvP-Ragnarok\ShooterGame\Content\Mods\731604991\doors\gates\small\glass\EngramEntry_
C:\Ark\Servers\EOGamer2.0-PvP-Ragnarok\ShooterGame\Content\Mods\812655342\structures\fertilizersilo\EngramEntry_
D:\Backup\Ark\Mods\84729343\EngramEntry_

in fact ANY text before and including

\EngramEntry_

is to be replaced to this

OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_

This works, but is not what I want

\\EngramEntry_

But

*\\EngramEntry_

doesn’t and doesn’t select anything

_I am completely at a loss on how to do this with RegEX. The documentation isn’t very clear on how to proceed with this.

dinkumoil

@Magnum-Opus

Your search term *\\EngramEntry_ doesn’t work because you used the quantifier * without a preceeding character to define the character(s) the quantifier should operate on.

Because you want to match any characters before \EngramEntry_ you have to insert . which means an arbitrary character. This results in the search term:

.*\\EngramEntry_.

BUT your replacement string OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_ isn’t error-free as well. You need to escape the ( character because it’s a meta character in regular expressions. Thus your replacement string should be:

OverrideNamedEngramEntries=\(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_

If you would like to read a really good regular expression manual visit this site. At some points in the manual you have to know the exact flavour of regular expressions used at your site. Notepad++ uses the boost lib regex flavour.