Find number, insert further along the line

[Alexander Wilson]

Hi you guys!

I have got 2550 lines where I need to search for “SM2841462” (unique for every line), and replace “XX0000000” with this - or i could delete XX000000 and insert the “SM” number here.

Hope you can help!
Thanks!

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[Alan Kilborn]

@Alexander-Wilson

Try this bit of magic:

• Regular expression Search mode
• Find: (?-si)((SM\d{7}).*?)XX0{7}
• Replace: ${1}${2}

Learn more about regular expressions in Notepad++ HERE, as well as in the N++ documentation about them HERE.

[Alexander Wilson]

@Alan-Kilborn
You are an absolute genius! That worked a treat!
Thank you very much!