RegEx omitting the round brackets
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My RegEx is omitting the round brackets despite putting that in the Replace all/Replace in files field
I used this(<a name="\d+")(><b>)([^<]*)(?=</b></a></td>)in the find field and this$1 style="color: rgb(44, 121, 179); text-decoration: none;"$2<span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(137, 155, 52); font-size: 13.5pt;">$3</span>in the Replace all/Replace in files field.
How do I get the brackets on replacing something that should have brackets? -
Parentheses (round brackets) carry meaning in the replacement, so you have to escape them:.
\(and\) -
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@PeterJones I added the
\just before the opening bracket as well as the closing bracket but it ain’t working. Please help! -
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+")(><b>)([^<]*)(?=</b></a></td>) - REPLACE =
$1 style="color: rgb\(44, 121, 179\); text-decoration: none;"$2<span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb\(137, 155, 52\); font-size: 13.5pt;">$3</span>
- FIND =
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@PeterJones yea, it worked. I had a </p> in my next search - that’s why it di’n’t work before. Thanks a lot man!
