Remove every other character

Swag Potato

I’ve opened a corrupted jpg file in notepad++ and noticed that every character is doubled. For example, instead of going “ÿØÿà JFIF” at the start, it goes “ÿÿØØÿÿàà JJFFIIFF”. This goes on for the whole 2456 lines. I want to know if there’s a way to remove every other character to make it normal again as I’m pretty sure this is the root of the corruption.

guy038

Hello, @swag-potato and All,

Weird request ! Anyway, @swag-potato, here is a solution :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
- SEARCH (\w)\1
- REPLACE \1
- Tick the Wrap around option
- Select the Regular expression search mode
- Click on the Replace All button

Notes :

This regex change any doubled word character with this word char
If some non-word chars ( as :, # or €,… ) exist in your .jpg file, prefer the following search regex (?-s)(.)\1 !

Best Regards

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@Swag-Potato said in Remove every other character:

I’ve opened a corrupted jpg file in notepad++

Editing a non-text file in Notepad++ is probably a pretty good way to ensure corruption, not eliminate it. My advice: Don’t do this.