so i should swap out the asterisks for <b> or style="font-weight: bold;?

You should do that…if that is what you want to obtain.
I think you can do a BIT of your own thinking here.

Well, You didn’t say that an empty line was already present between the ---- line and the line which must be changed as bold !

So, here is the final solution which works in the two cases !

With the INPUT text, below :

FIRST case :

-----
Title_1
Text here
...
...


SECOND case :

-----

Title_2
Other Text here
...
...

And using the regex S/R :

• SEARCH (?-s)^-{5,}(\R)\R?(.+)

• REPLACE -----\1\1**\2**

You should get the expected text :

FIRST case :

-----

**Title_1**
Text here
...
...


SECOND case :

-----

**Title_2**
Other Text here
...
...

Cheers,

guy038

Ah… yes, regular expressions are the school of precision !

So, you mean that you have this kind of INPUT text :

-----
Title here
Text here
...
...

and that you expect the OUTPUT text below :

-----

**Title here**
Text here
...
...

Right ? If so, use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^-{5,}(\R)(.+)

REPLACE -----\1\1**\2**

Best Regards,

guy038

like

------

**Title**
text here

@kracovwolf, as your number of dashes is not the same between your first post and your raw text, in reverse video, here is my regex solution :

• SEARCH ^-{5,}(\R)

• REPLACE $0\1

which adds an empty line, right after any line of, at least, 5 dashes, beginning a line

Regarding your second problem and assuming your statement :

And I need to know how to make a whole line bold if it contains a specific word or is below the hyphen and linebreak

Here is a regex alternative to the @neil-schipper solution :

• SEARCH (?-s).*Place of interest.*|-{5,}\R\R\K.+

• REPLACE <bold>$0</bold>

Notes :

• For these two regex S/R , select the Regular expression search mode and tick the Wrap around option

• For the last regex S/R, you must use the Replace All button ( Do not use the Replace button ! )

Best Regards,

guy038

.?Phrase of interest.? and replacing with <bold>(1)</bold>.

That’s also wrong.

(.*?Phrase of interest.*?$)
<bold>\1</bold>
(tested)

or is below the hyphen and linebreak

Let us know if you solve your first two needs, then someone will help you with the third…

ok, roughly it will be finding something like (\-\R\R)(.*) and replacing with (1)<bold>(2)</bold> (and keep . matches newline not checked).

For your second need, it will be using a regex, something along the lines of finding .*?Phrase of interest.*? and replacing with <bold>(1)</bold>. (These are guidelines, not a tested solution. Try to have some fun with it.)

For the hyphens, I just need to make

this:
text
----------
Specific word

into:
text
----------

Specific word

If so, play with Find&Replace function in Extended mode. You will need to worry about finding and replacing each newline as the pair \r\n (ie, CR,LF as made visible when you turn on View -> Show Symbol -> Show End of Line. If you screw this up, other software that processes the file may misbehave.

As for your second need, npp, as a text editor does not embolden text (even though it allows bolded fonts for styling). Do you mean something like wrapping text with html tags?