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.

connor austin

@Alan-Kilborn this file i have the same one its from a game called “People Playground” and the Devs of the game made this file for people who know how to edit . JPG and they did this as a joke but despite this people were able to do this and see the image the file is modulo2.jpg if you want to know more about it just search up the file name and click on the first result.