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    • guy038G
      guy038
      last edited by guy038

      Hello @victor-fansler, @terry-r, @alan-kilborn and All,

      You said, in your chat message :

      The “Camera” is a placeholder and can be any text, but will end with a Date and Time

      So I suppose that all these lines always end with the three uppercase letters PST

      If this assumption is right, here are new versions of the regexes ( The first and second one ). Note also that I improved these regexes :

      Now, you don’t even need to separate any section with blank line(s) ;-))

      So starting with your INPUT text, where I added some empty lines :

      Video Return
Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Connection Lost to Camera
Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name

Video Return
Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name



Video Return
Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Connection Lost to Camera
Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name


Connection Lost to Camera
Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name

      First, use the following regex S/R in order to place the line Video Return OR Connection Lost to Camera, after each line Account :

      SEARCH (?-s)^(.+\R)((?:.+\R)+?Account: .+\R)\R*

      REPLACE \2\1

      We get this text :

      Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Connection Lost to Camera
Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Connection Lost to Camera
Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Video Return
Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST
Account: Customer Name - Server Name
Connection Lost to Camera

      Now, using this second regex S/R :

      SEARCH (?-is)^.+PST(?=\R(?:.+PST\R)*?(Account: .+)\R(.+)\R)|^(.+\R){2}

      REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

      We get the OUTPUT text :

      Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 08:31AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 02:27AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:25AM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/14/2022 12:23AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 09:31AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 04:57AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:43AM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/13/2022 01:42AM PST - Video Return
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-1 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-4 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-2 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera
Account: Customer Name - Server Name - Camera-3 02/12/2022 07:18PM PST - Connection Lost to Camera

      I hope that it is your expected text !?

      See you later !

      Best Regards,

      guy038

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @guy038
        last edited by

        @guy038

        Is there a special reason for the recent revisit to something asked 5 months ago? Just asking…in case I am missing some sort of newly discovered technique…

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        • guy038G
          guy038
          last edited by guy038

          Hi, @alan-kilborn,

          Well, it’s just that we cannot place more than 1,000 characters in a chat message. So I preferred to answer in our forum !

          But, indeed, I was asked to create a new post or to continue with that one !

          I have just re-indicated to @victor-fansler, the title of this article

          BR

          guy038

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @guy038
            last edited by

            @guy038 said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

            But, indeed, I was asked to create a new post or to continue with that one !

            Ah, OK, makes sense! I wasn’t sure your previous use of “chat” really meant that or just conversation above in this thread.

            Chat is useful if something really gets specific to an OP’s need and really can’t benefit anyone else. Otherwise it is good to see the conversation in a real post.

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            • Michael VincentM
              Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
              last edited by

              @alan-kilborn said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

              I gave up dealing with that problem long ago when I started to use the editorconfig plugin. With it you can specify that files should always end with an line-ending sequence.

              I would have thought you’d have a PythonScript for that! :-)

              Cheers.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                last edited by

                @michael-vincent said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                I would have thought you’d have a PythonScript for that

                It would be an easy script, but I don’t tend to re-invent the wheel unless I’m going to make the wheel better. And editorconfig works just fine in this regard, so…just keep rollin’.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by

                  @michael-vincent said in Find and select multiple lines to change order:

                  …PythonScript for that…

                  Well… I looked into my folder of “retired” scripts and I found that I used to use the SCOTT SCRIPT for doing it before I discovered the editorconfig plugin.

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                  • DarthDataD
                    DarthData @guy038
                    last edited by

                    @guy038 Thanks for this and sorry for any confusion. Unfortunately, the lines will not always end with PST. There are different time zones. Primarily PST and MST, but could be MDT as well.

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                    • Lycan ThropeL
                      Lycan Thrope @DarthData
                      last edited by

                      @darthdata ,

                      You really have to stop moving the goal posts. :) Poor @guy038 must have a real life, even if he does love doing this stuff, I suspect he’d like to fix it once and move on. :)

                      Lee

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                      • guy038G
                        guy038
                        last edited by

                        Hi, @darthdata and All,

                        In this case, change the second regex S/R into this one :

                        SEARCH (?-is)^.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)(?=\R(?:.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)\R)*?(Account: .+)\R(.+))|^(.+\R){2}

                        REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

                        BR

                        guy038

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