RegEx omitting the round brackets

Scott Nielson · Jun 20, 2021, 4:55 PM

My RegEx is omitting the round brackets despite putting that in the Replace all/Replace in files field
I used this (<a name="\d+")(>)([^<]*)(?=</a></td>) in the find field and this $1 style="color: rgb(44, 121, 179); text-decoration: none;"$2$3 in the Replace all/Replace in files field.
How do I get the brackets on replacing something that should have brackets?

PeterJones · Jun 20, 2021, 5:38 PM

@Scott-Nielson ,

Parentheses (round brackets) carry meaning in the replacement, so you have to escape them:. $ and $

Scott Nielson · Jun 20, 2021, 5:56 PM

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Scott Nielson · Jun 20, 2021, 6:03 PM

@PeterJones I added the \ just before the opening bracket as well as the closing bracket but it ain’t working. Please help!

PeterJones · Jun 20, 2021, 6:22 PM

@Scott-Nielson ,

escaping parentheses works perfectly well in Notepad++ regular expressions.

and your regex, when modified to escape the parens, works perfectly well for me:

FIND = (<a name="\d+")(>)([^<]*)(?=</a></td>)
REPLACE = $1 style="color: rgb$44, 121, 179$; text-decoration: none;"$2$3

Scott Nielson · Jun 20, 2021, 6:30 PM

@PeterJones yea, it worked. I had a in my next search - that’s why it di’n’t work before. Thanks a lot man!