Extract the lines greater than

zarate petery

friends how can i select the lines that have movies greater than 14

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guy038

Hello @zarate-petery and All,

Easy with regular expressions !

As you don’t say anything about the upper limit of the movies numbers, I suppose that 999 was the maximum !

This leads to that regex S/R, with select all contents, including their line-breaks, of lines with a movies number greater than 14

SEARCH (?-s)^.+(?:[1-9]\d\d|1[5-9]|[2-9]\d)\R?

Notes : This regex is almost obvious ! A few points :

The (?-s) in-line modifier, at beginning of pattern ensures that the regex dot symbol represents a single standard character and not a line-break character
The (?:....|.....|.....) is the syntax of a non-capturing group of several alternatives
- The 1st alternative looks for a three-digit number
- The 2nd alternative looks for a two-digit number between 15 and 19
- The 3rd alternative looks for a two-digit number greater than 19
The \R? represents any line-break character(s) of current scanned line. The ? quantifier, meaning {0,1} have been added just in case that the last line does not have any line ending

Best regards

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 @zarate-petery

A couple of things:

When I try @guy038’s regex on the OP’s data, I get hits on all four lines. The OP wanted only the 3rd and 4th lines to be hit.
OP says “how can i select the lines?”. To that I say “What are you wanting to do with them?” Notepad++ currently contains no go way to select (as in “selected text”) data in this fashion, so if you want to copy only the data matching the criterion somewhere else, you have to turn to other mechanisms.

So back to the regex. I think it was @guy038’s desire to handle the “last line does not have any line ending” condition (probably a “late addition” to a finished solution?) that tripped up the regex. I’d suggest these variants, all of which seem to work:

(?-s)^.+(?:[1-9]\d\d|1[5-9]|[2-9]\d)\R <— requires a line-ending on last line to match the last line

or

(?-s)^.+(?:[1-9]\d\d|1[5-9]|[2-9]\d)$\R? <— adds a $ to anchor what comes before to line-ending

or

(?-s)^.+(?:[1-9]\d\d|1[5-9]|[2-9]\d)(?:\R|\z) <— use \z for special end-of-file / last-line handling

Alan Kilborn

@Alan-Kilborn said in Extract the lines greater than:

Notepad++ currently contains no go way…

Ach. Was supposed to be “Notepad++ currently contains no good way…”

But @zarate-petery , if you really need a way to copy out the matched data, let us know, and we’ll provide one.

guy038

Hi, @zarate-petery and All,

Oh, My God ! I was totally wrong in many ways :-((

Firstly @zarate-petery said :

user = 8732560 | domainId = 5674567 | points = 22.21 | N° movies = 13
user = 13567799 | domainId = 8879095 | points = 0.01 | N° movies = 1
user = 7688898 | domainId = 454679 | points = | N° movies = 24
user = 8743210 | domainId = 5633556 | points = 1 | N° movies = 17

to

user = 7688898 | domainId = 454679 | points = | N° movies = 24
user = 8743210 | domainId = 5633556 | points = 1 | N° movies = 17

And I thought that the OP wanted to select the entire lines with last number greater than 14. Not at all ! May be, the OP just wants to delete lines with last number under 15 !

Secondly, I tested my search regex against the text, below, and, obviously, as it contains only one number per line, my regex wrongly worked nice !

Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
....
....
Test 149
Test 150

So, thanks to Alan, the right regex is one of his 3 solutions !

However, I think it would be better to add the \x20 syntax, right after the .+ part. Indeed, by default, the first part of the pattern ^.+\x20 would match exactly what we want to ! No need for any backtracking ;-))

For instance, the Alan’s 2nd solution would be changed as (?-s)^.+\x20(?:[1-9]\d\d|1[5-9]|[2-9]\d)$\R?

Now, if the OP prefers that solution, here is a regex S/R, which deletes any line ending with a number smaller than 15 :

SEARCH (?-s)^.+\x20(?:1[0-4]|\d)$\R?

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Best Regards

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said in Extract the lines greater than:

And I thought that the OP wanted to select the entire lines with last number greater than 14.

Yes, you thought that because that’s what the OP said. :-)

May be, the OP just wants to delete lines with last number under 15 !

I don’t know about that.
I’ve already queried the OP on what his end goal is.
Probably best to wait for that answer, if it ever comes.