<![CDATA[RegEx selective replace]]>Hi

I’m hoping someone can help as I’ve been struggling with this all day!

I have some text files that I want to do some search/replace on but I can’t work out how to reference selectively what I’m trying to replace.

Taking this as the test:

IF Thirty THEN
DRAW("               Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty")
ENDIF

I would like to replace the Thirty on line that includes DRAW with ‘30’ but not on the IF line. How can I do this please.

I’m tearing my hair out!

Many thanks

Rob

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19704/regex-selective-replaceRSS for NodeMon, 14 Sep 2026 08:37:13 GMTTue, 14 Jul 2020 15:43:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to RegEx selective replace on Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:42:05 GMT]]>@PeterJones said in RegEx selective replace:

(?-s)(DRAW.*)Thirty

Many thanks!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55868https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55868Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:42:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RegEx selective replace on Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:50:29 GMT]]>@Forum-Bloke ,

  • FIND WHAT = (?-s)(DRAW.*)Thirty
  • REPLACE WITH = $1Replacement
  • MODE = regular expression

Requires DRAW to come before the Thirty, on the same line.

  • (?-s) = dot wildcard does not match space
  • (DRAW.*) = literal text DRAW followed by 0 or more characters (.*), all put into group#1
  • Thirty = literal text you want to replace
  • $1 = in the replacement, this will include the contents of group#1, which is everything from DRAW (including the DRAW) to just before the Thirty
  • Replacement = the word you want to insert instead of Thirty

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Official Notepad++ Searching/Regex Docs = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#regular-expressions

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