= ${1}“${2}”;

This worked like a charm:

(?-is)^(title = )(.*?); Variation name"
${1}${2};"

I think I can adapt it or tweak it if I need too.

Thanks @PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn

and the replace will be removing variation name and add a " to the title line.

I didn’t notice that in the first data.

• Find what = (?-is)^(title = )(.*?); Variation name
• Replace with = ${1}"${2}";

I put the prefix in group 1, and the title value in group 2. In the replacement, I put the quotes around the title value.

Are you and Alan developers of this great program

Neither he nor I are frequent contributors to the codebase. We “pay it back” by answering questions and helping others here. :-)

where can I donate

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/donate/ is the official donation page for the Notepad++

I think the search line (Find what) is right…I will add a " next to Variation name"
and the replace will be removing variation name and add a " to the title line.

The info on the title line is for hundreds and thousands of different AIGAIM _ names.

Thanks, @PeterJones

BobM

PS Are you and Alan developers of this great program and if so…where can I donate… You guys are wonderful to put up with some real winners…lol

Alan: If i go back to this; will this be ok…

… then deleted that message while I was starting to reply …

You can use extended mode to do some replacements, as long as the fancy characters you are looking for only involve newlines (\r\n), tabs, etc. But since you seem to be wanting to do partial replacement, I don’t think that “extended” will be sufficient

Since there were like 30 posts the last time, and to prevent so much back and forth, I’m going to try to read your mind.

I mind-read that you have data like

title = AIGAIM_Air Busan Airbus A321-200SL ; Variation name
some other rows
Variation name might appear elsewhere

title = AIGAIM_Thai VietJet Air Airbus A320-200 ; Variation name
blah

and you want to look for any of the “title” lines, and remove just the “Variation name” portion, so that it will end up like

title = AIGAIM_Air Busan Airbus A321-200SL ;
some other rows
Variation name might appear elsewhere

title = AIGAIM_Thai VietJet Air Airbus A320-200 ;
blah

(Do you see how much easier it is to see the “before” and “after” when you actually show it, in the </> text boxes?!)

Now you can fill out the Replace dialog like:

• Find What = (?-is)^(title = .*?;) Variation name
• Replace With = ${1}
• Search Mode = regular expression

If this is not sufficient, you will have to do a better job of clarifying if you want any more help.

Thank you… I will read this and try to figure this out…

Bestest!!

BobM.

In your first post, you said

This is what I have: title = AIGAIM_Air Busan Airbus A321-200SL ; Variation name
I want to change to this: title = "AIGAIM_Air Busan Airbus A321-200SL ; "

In your next

title = “AIGAIM_Airblue Airbus A321-200SL ; Variation name”
title = "${1} ; "

and in your third, you went back to

I search for this: title = “AIGAIM_Airblue Airbus A321-200SL ; Variation name”
I replaced with this; title = "AIGAIM_Airblue Airbus A321-200SL ; "

Does that really seem to you to be adequate clarification? What new information do you think you shared in the third that you hadn’t already shared?

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I search for this: title = “AIGAIM_Airblue Airbus A321-200SL ; Variation name”
I replaced with this; title = "AIGAIM_Airblue Airbus A321-200SL ; "

will that work: I am wanting to run an “expression” that will change the search to the replace? Begins with title on both search and replace. I am basically changing the title line for both lines.

Does that work Alan?

Bestest,
BobM.

I’m confused by your example.
I think you need to better identify what you searched for and what you replaced with. Something like:

find: I searched for this
replace: I replaced with this

title = "${1} ; "

I had this from before but want to have it like this… (I was screwing around and couldn’t get it right so this is a fresh sample…regular expression

Thanks !!

Have tried and tried but can’t get it to work…

Exactly what have you tried?
Seeing what you’ve done and allowing us to comment on it, helps the learning process, for repeat data-manipulation question askers.