<![CDATA[Replace help]]>Hello, I would like to replace multiple words… In a file I have a lot of colordiffuse=“[hexcolor]” with differents colors so colordiffuse=“FF545287” ; colordiffuse=“00FFFFFF” ,etc… And what I would like to to replace all of these lines by colordiffuse=“FF000000” so by a single color

Is it possible ?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20819/replace-helpRSS for NodeTue, 11 Aug 2026 19:56:43 GMTTue, 02 Mar 2021 16:03:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:36:30 GMT]]>Okay thanks, it works !

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63454https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63454Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:36:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:31:05 GMT]]>@Y-M

(?<=colordiffuse=").+?(?=")

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63452https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63452Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:31:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:30:08 GMT]]>@PeterJones

Nothing special, just a pure typo.
I actually wanted to type the positive lookahead but for whatever reason … :-(

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63451https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63451Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:30:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:24:56 GMT]]>And how to do that when it is colordiffuse=“[something]”, not only hexadecimal values but everything in the “”

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63450https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63450Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:24:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:24:09 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse said in Replace help:

find what:(?<=colordiffuse=")[[:xdigit:]]{8}(?!>")

That works for the sample data, and the OP seems happy.

But I’m curious: Why did you choose a negative lookahead (?!>") saying that the next two characters (after the 8 hex digits) aren’t >", rather than using a positive lookahead (?=") saying that the next character (after the 8 hex digits) must be "? If >" had been mentioned as an exception, I would understand using that, but as it is, that seems an interesting choice, and I wanted to see if there was any insight behind it, or just arbitrary on your part?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63449https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63449Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:24:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:21:25 GMT]]>Thanks !

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63448https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63448Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:21:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Replace help on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:12:04 GMT]]>It looks like the colors are hexadecimal values and each are 8 digits. If this is the case, then you can use
find what:(?<=colordiffuse=")[[:xdigit:]]{8}(?!>")
replace with:FF000000
and check regular expression checkbox

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63447https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/63447Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:12:04 GMT