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    BAZ BAZOOO
    last edited by Apr 18, 2020, 6:48 AM

    Hello , i need some help with bookmark lines if they contains a part words

    for example i am searching inside a text file that contains 2 lines

    TEST1/e37845R2b11ecbf0ade4
    TEST2/guTiuh76iuh7TFuhOIHJD

    I want to find and bookmark all lines that contains
    11ecbf0ade4
    7TFuhOIHJD

    which is a part of the 2 lines above ? is it possible ? if not is possible anywhere else ?

    thanks in advance.

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      guy038
      last edited by guy038 Apr 24, 2020, 9:14 AM Apr 18, 2020, 10:28 AM

      Hello @baz-bazooo and All,

      If I fully understand, you want to mark two consecutive lines :

      • One of which contains the string 11ecbf0ade4 and the next contains the string 7TFuhOIHJD

      or

      • One of which contains the string 7TFuhOIHJD and the next contains the string 11ecbf0ade4

      If so, here is a regex S/R which should work :

      • MARK (?-si)(11ecbf0ade4)(.*\R.*)(7TFuhOIHJD)|(?3)(?2)(?1)

      • Select the Regular expression search mode

      • Tick the Bookmark line option

      Best Regards,

      guy038

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        BAZ BAZOOO @guy038
        last edited by Apr 21, 2020, 9:35 PM

        @guy038

        I have hundreds of partials words not just one one

        what i use right now is multi highlight addon on chrome to does the job , but i need it on notepad it will make my life much easier

        lets i have 200 unique numbers or words i need to mark all lines that contains this word or number

        i need to be able to search and bookmark all the lines so i can remove non marked lines or remove the book marked and keep the other lines

        if i tried (?-si) etc i will have to do so much manual work i am trying to make it easy for me , the first example was just a hint , i deal with many many lines that i need to mark them as i said .
        thank you.

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          Michael Vincent @BAZ BAZOOO
          last edited by Apr 21, 2020, 10:15 PM

          @BAZ-BAZOOO
          I haven’t used it but the Analyse Plugin may be useful here based on description:

          “With this plugin you can search for multiple patterns in any of the opened documents in NotePad++.”

          Cheers.

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            Alan Kilborn @BAZ BAZOOO
            last edited by Apr 21, 2020, 10:26 PM

            @BAZ-BAZOOO

            So you have a list of 200 or so partial words, and you want to bookmark any lines in a Notepad++ window that contain any of these partials?

            I guess a script could do that easily enough.

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              Alan Kilborn
              last edited by Apr 22, 2020, 12:56 PM

              Maybe a script is “overkill”. Let’s try a different technique.

              Take the file that contains your “word” list (assume one word per line with nothing else on the line; also presumes only alphanumeric characters – like you show – in the list) and select the list.

              Open the Replace dialog by pressing Ctrl+h and then set up the following search parameters:
              Find what box: \R
              Replace with box: |
              Search mode radiobutton: Regular expression
              In selection checkbox: ticked
              Untick any other checkboxes.
              Then press the Replace All button.

              This will put your word list all on one line; verify that the rightmost character on that line isn’t a |; remove it if it is.

              Select this new long line of data and check the status bar of Notepad++ to see how long it is. If it is longer than roughly 2040 characters, we’ve got problems, but let’s assume it is less than that.

              Now press Ctrl+f. The Find window should open and your long line placed in the Find what box.

              Switch to the Mark tab and set up the following:

              Find what box: <—retains your data
              Bookmark line checkbox: ticked
              Wrap around checkbox: ticked
              Search mode radiobutton: Regular expression
              Untick any other checkboxes.

              Activate the file that you want to put the bookmarks into. This could be the same file as your word list data but it could be a different file as well.

              Then press the Mark All button in the Mark window.

              You should achieve books on any and all lines containing a word from the word list.

              Let’s try it:

              Create some data we want to put bookmarks in, in a temporary file in Notepad++:

              After a weekend of emotional honesty at an
              Esalen-style retreat, Los Angeles
              sophisticates Bob and Carol Sanders (Robert
              Culp and Natalie Wood) return home determined
              to embrace complete openness. They share their
              enthusiasm and excitement over their new-found
              philosophy with their more conservative
              friends Ted and Alice Henderson (Elliott Gould
              and Dyan Cannon), who remain doubtful. Soon
              after, filmmaker Bob has an affair with a
              young production assistant on a film shoot in
              San Francisco. When he gets home he admits his
              liaison to Carol, describing the event as a
              purely physical act, not an emotional one. To
              Bob's surprise, Carol is completely accepting
              of his extramarital behavior. Later, Carol
              gleefully reveals the affair to Ted and Alice
              as they are leaving a dinner party. Disturbed
              by Bob's infidelity and Carol's candor, Alice
              becomes physically ill on the drive home. She
              and Ted have a difficult time coping with the
              news in bed that night. But as time passes
              they grow to accept that Bob and Carol really
              are fine with the affair. Later, Ted admits to
              Bob that he was tempted to have an affair
              once, but didn't go through with it; Bob tells
              Ted he should, rationalizing: "You've got the
              guilt anyway. Don't waste it."
              

              Make a short word list in a different temporary file in Notepad++:

              Bob
              Carol
              Alice
              

              Select and run the replacement to achieve:

              Bob|Carol|Alice|
              

              Remove rightmost | character to get:

              Bob|Carol|Alice
              

              Select that one line, not status bar says length is 15, which is fine: Sel : 15 | 1

              Press Ctrl+f to get the data into the Find what box of the Find window.

              Move to the Mark tab and follow the setup instructions above.

              Activate the file tab in Notepad++ that contains the data that needs bookmarking.

              Press the Mark All button in the Mark window to achieve:

              37f083cf-f2cc-44d6-84df-ceb89f9fcb40-image.png

              If the word list, when combined into one line, happens to be longer than a couple of thousand characters, you just have to break it down into several lists and apply the technique described above repeatedly.

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                BAZ BAZOOO
                last edited by Apr 28, 2020, 2:25 AM

                I wish something easier i tried this and didnt work i believe it works for you its complicated , i wish there is anything will be done quickly if i have to repeat this vertical bar on each txt file it will take all day , maybe someone can make a plugin ? to search for words in each line and mark that line if words be found ?

                Thanks in advance.

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                  BAZ BAZOOO @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by Apr 28, 2020, 2:49 AM

                  @Michael-Vincent said in Bookmark multi words from multi lines in a text:

                  @BAZ-BAZOOO
                  I haven’t used it but the Analyse Plugin may be useful here based on description:

                  “With this plugin you can search for multiple patterns in any of the opened documents in NotePad++.”

                  Cheers.

                  This work perfect only if i put a words then click add

                  but here comes another question

                  how can i add multi words a word per line ?

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                    Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Apr 28, 2020, 12:39 PM

                    i tried this and didnt work…its complicated

                    “didn’t work” gives us no further insight into your problem…

                    if i have to repeat this vertical bar on each txt file it will take all day

                    Well, there is a Replace in Files function, but I really hesitate to give more advice because the overall need is so vague.

                    maybe someone can make a plugin

                    Nobody but possibly you is going to make such a plugin.

                    I suppose the bottom line is that you have to state your problem in a much better and much clearer way before anyone can really help. We tried.

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                      Alan Kilborn @BAZ BAZOOO
                      last edited by Apr 28, 2020, 12:58 PM

                      @BAZ-BAZOOO

                      More advice for you HERE about your call for “someone to make you a plugin”

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                        BAZ BAZOOO @Alan Kilborn
                        last edited by May 25, 2020, 1:56 AM

                        @Alan-Kilborn

                        I suppose the bottom line is that you have to state your problem in a much better and much clearer way before anyone can really help. We tried.

                        Okay here is my clear way to explain what i need

                        very simple

                        for example if i have 100 line and each line contains many words such as

                        ihgfR678ihGFDFyuiI_ABCDEFGZZZZZZZZ
                        jhgfTYUijhgFHGHJkjhgfYUI_ABCDEFGZZZZZZZZZZ
                        jhgfRTYuhgfDRTYUI_AAAA
                        JfgyudftyHvc_rrrrrRRRRR

                        I want away to highlight all line that contains _ABCDEFG which is the first and the second ,

                        a plugin where i can feed the app with a list of lines that i am looking to highlight into a text file using notepad

                        am i clear now ?

                        thank you so much for your time ,

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                          Alan Kilborn @BAZ BAZOOO
                          last edited by May 25, 2020, 10:49 AM

                          @BAZ-BAZOOO said in Bookmark multi words from multi lines in a text:

                          am i clear now ?

                          Not really. Maybe?

                          each line contains many words

                          I saw some lines with ONE “word” per line (as the definition of a “word” is alphanumerics plus underscore, and words are separated with spaces. I saw no spaces in the lines.

                          I want away to highlight all line that contains _ABCDEFG

                          So this _ABCDEFG would be on a line by itself in a text file of other such words?

                          I will see about scripting something up, where the list of words is in view2 and the file to apply marking to is in view1.

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                            Alan Kilborn
                            last edited by May 26, 2020, 1:41 PM

                            So I came up with the following Pythonscript.
                            Basic scripting instructions can be found HERE.
                            The script will take a list of words in the active tab of one of the views, and apply marking to active tab in the other view document.
                            The script attempts to autodetect which view is which.

                            Example, after running:

                            06ad2222-227f-4c4a-b9d8-8f8d6c134a71-image.png

                            The script:

                            # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                            
                            from Npp import editor, editor1, editor2, notepad
                            
                            class T19249(object):
                                def __init__(self):
                                    SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE = 31  # redmarking indicator number; name from N++ source code
                                    files_in_view_count_list = [ 0, 0 ]
                                    for (_, _, _, view) in notepad.getFiles(): files_in_view_count_list[view] += 1
                                    if files_in_view_count_list[0] == 0 or files_in_view_count_list[1] == 0:
                                        notepad.messageBox('This script requires 2 views to be open', '')
                                        return
                                    editor_for_text_to_mark = editor1
                                    word_list = editor2.getText().splitlines()  # try secondary view first, looking for 1 word per line
                                    for word in word_list:
                                        if ' ' in word.strip():
                                            word_list = editor1.getText().splitlines()  # try primary view, looking for 1 word per line
                                            for word in word_list:
                                                if ' ' in word.strip():
                                                    notepad.messageBox("Can't find one-word-per-line list in either view's active tab")
                                                    return
                                            editor_for_text_to_mark = editor2
                                            break
                                    for word in word_list:
                                        matches = []
                                        editor_for_text_to_mark.search(word, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                                        editor_for_text_to_mark.setIndicatorCurrent(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE)
                                        for m in matches: editor_for_text_to_mark.indicatorFillRange(m[0], m[1] - m[0])
                            
                            if __name__ == '__main__': T19249()
                            
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                              guy038
                              last edited by guy038 May 26, 2020, 9:14 PM May 26, 2020, 8:53 PM

                              Hello, @alan-kilborn and All,

                              Once more, a nice script ! May I ask you for three improvements ?

                              • Firstly, could it be possible to type the string Bob and Carol, which occurs twice in your text ? In other words, just simply consider all contents of each line !

                              • Secondly, would it be difficult to force your script to follow the Find dialog settings or take these settings in account, in some way ? For instance we would be able to get whole words only !

                              • Thirdly, it’s a regex man who speaks : could you consider regex expressions ? For instance :

                                • ^.{29}\K.{10}              # Marks all a table contents from columns 30 to 39

                                • \bBob.{2,20}Carol\b   # Marks the two first names Bob and Carol, no more than 20 characters apart

                              In your text, it would match the 3 strings Bob and Carol, Bob’s surprise, Carol and Bob’s infidelity and Carol

                              As usual, Alan, do as you like to ;-))

                              Best Regards

                              guy038

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                                Alan Kilborn @guy038
                                last edited by May 26, 2020, 8:55 PM

                                @guy038

                                Haha, well, I was trying to keep it simple, according to the OP’s desire.
                                But I will see what I can do.

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                                  Alan Kilborn @guy038
                                  last edited by guy038 Dec 9, 2020, 9:20 AM Dec 8, 2020, 6:15 PM

                                  @guy038

                                  Sorry it took me so long, but here’s the revised script (it is actually shorter, now!) with your desired changes, plus as a bonus it also bookmarks lines:

                                  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                                  
                                  from Npp import editor, editor1, editor2, notepad
                                  
                                  class T19249a(object):
                                      def __init__(self):
                                          SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE = 31  # redmarking indicator number; name from N++ source code
                                          MARK_BOOKMARK = 24              # bookmarking marker number; name from N++ source code
                                          files_in_view_count_list = [ 0, 0 ]
                                          for (_, _, _, view) in notepad.getFiles(): files_in_view_count_list[view] += 1
                                          if files_in_view_count_list[0] == 0 or files_in_view_count_list[1] == 0:
                                              notepad.messageBox('This script requires 2 views to be open', '')
                                              return
                                          search_term_list = editor2.getText().splitlines()  # search terms are in secondary view
                                          for search_term in search_term_list:
                                              matches = []
                                              editor1.research(search_term, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                                              editor1.setIndicatorCurrent(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE)
                                              for m in matches:
                                                  editor1.indicatorFillRange(m[0], m[1] - m[0])
                                                  editor1.markerAdd(editor1.lineFromPosition(m[0]), MARK_BOOKMARK)
                                  
                                  if __name__ == '__main__': T19249a()
                                  

                                  For instance we would be able to get whole words only

                                  I think you can use the \b assertion in your regexes for this?

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                                    guy038
                                    last edited by Dec 9, 2020, 12:14 AM

                                    Hi, @alan-kilobrn and All,

                                    Many thanks for this new enhanced version !

                                    Before speaking about my tests of your 2nd try, I re-read all the discussion and tried to play with your first version !

                                    • So, regarding this first version :

                                    I decided to search for the word license, program and version in the N++ license.txt file. And, strangely, I did not get all the expected matches ! After a while I understood that you must have the focus on the file containing the list of words ( which are searched in the current file of the other view ). In that case, the results are quite correct !

                                    But if the focus is on the file being analyzed, the script seems to match only the first two matches ?!


                                    Now, regarding your second version :

                                    • Thanks, first, for bookmarking all the lines containing the matches

                                    • Thanks also the possibility to search for multiple-words expressions such as Bob and Carol or, even, complete sentences !

                                    • Finally, thanks for supporting the regex expressions. For instance, if you have a one-line file containing Bob.*?Carol, it would mark, in the current file of the other view, all the smallest ranges of characters beginning with Bob till Carol, with this exact case !

                                    • Note that the Python search is sensible to case, by default and does not care about the whole word notion. So :

                                      • To run a search insensible to case, just prefix your regex or expression with the (?i) modifier

                                      • To run a search which matches only whole words, surround your expression with the \b assertion. For instance, the regex search \bted\b would find the first name ted but not the string ted in the word deleted


                                    Now, Alan, I’m sorry but it’s time to talk about some inconveniences ! I take up your text with Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice :

                                    Imagine I have this two-lines list :

                                    \bBob.{2,20}Carol\b
                                    \bTed.{2,20}Alice\b

                                    • If the focus is on that list, the script correctly marked all the zones in red but no bookmarking occurs ! Oddly, it bookmarks the virtual final line of the list, instead !

                                    • If the focus is on the file being analyzed, the script correctly bookmarks all the lines where the zones belong but, strangely, it red-marks, only, the first two matches as with your 1st script !?

                                    I’m sure you won’t be long to find out a solution to these problems !

                                    Cheers,

                                    guy038

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                                      Alan Kilborn @guy038
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                                        Alan Kilborn @Alan Kilborn
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                                          guy038
                                          last edited by guy038 Dec 9, 2020, 9:32 AM Dec 9, 2020, 9:29 AM

                                          Hello @alan-kilborn,

                                          So, magically, the second version of your script seems to work better, this morning ;-))

                                          However, there’s still this minor bug, as I said in my previous post :

                                          • If the focus is on the file being analyzed, the script correctly bookmarks all the lines where the zones belong but, strangely, it red-marks, only, the first two matches as with your 1st script !?

                                          Surely a matter of minutes to get it right !

                                          Note that I can live with this : we just have to remember to focus on the view contening the list of words/regexes, before running your Python script !

                                          BR

                                          guy038

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